U+842C "萬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+842C "萬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that originally depicted a scorpion in its ancient oracle bone script form, but over time it became the standard word for the number ten thousand (10,000) in many East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Beyond its numerical meaning, it frequently appears in idiomatic expressions and names to convey the concepts of vastness, abundance, or eternity, such as in the common Chinese greeting "wàn suì" meaning "ten thousand years" or "long live." In Japanese, it is also used in the surname "Yorozu" and in the word "banzai," a celebratory exclamation. The character's complexity includes thirteen strokes and it serves as a key component in other kanji and hanzi characters related to quantity and multiplicity.