Large numbers aren’t all multiples of 万 (i mean, everything is a multiple of something), Japan just uses the long scale myriad (ie 4 zeros to the comma). So you have 10 man, 100 man, 1000 man, and after that is oku, cho, etc, all of which go to 1000 before the next number word.
Large numbers aren’t all multiples of 万 (i mean, everything is a multiple of something), Japan just uses
the long scalemyriad (ie 4 zeros to the comma). So you have 10 man, 100 man, 1000 man, and after that is oku, cho, etc, all of which go to 1000 before the next number word.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad
ed: long scale is apparently different from 4 zeros to the comma