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10,000

Natural number

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Many languages have a specific word for this number; in Ancient Greek it is μύριοι (the etymological root of the word myriad in English), in Aramaic ܪܒܘܬܐ, in Hebrew רבבה [revava], in Chinese 萬/万 (Mandarin wàn, Cantonese maan6, Hokkien bān), in Japanese 万/萬 [man], in Khmer ម៉ឺន [meun], in Korean 만/萬 [man], in Russian тьма [t'ma], in Vietnamese vạn, in Sanskrit अयुत [ayuta], in Thai หมื่น [meun], in Malayalam പതിനായിരം [patinayiram], and in Malagasy alina. In many of these languages, it often denotes a very large but indefinite number.

The classical Greeks used letters of the Greek alphabet to represent Greek numerals: they used a capital letter mu (Μ) to represent ten thousand. This Greek root was used in early versions of the metric system in the form of the decimal prefix myria-.

Depending on the country, the number ten thousand is usually written as 10,000 (including in the UK and US), 10.000, or 10 000.

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