TSUMUGU · TOCFL 1 · 字
萬
ㄨㄢˋ · wàn
num — ten thousand
字源 FORM — what the parts do
萬形a scorpion drawn whole — pincers on top, body, curled sting belowthe 艹-shape is the pincers, not grass
A scorpion: pincers at the top, the body, the tail curling under. The number ten thousand borrowed the whole beast and never gave it back; the scorpion moved into a new graph, 蠆.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
搬開石頭，一隻蠍子（萬）舉著尾巴，一動不動。
Lift the rock — a scorpion (萬), tail raised, holding still.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)蠍子— the scorpion — the graph's own beast
→一萬— ten thousand常用
⇒萬一、千萬— one chance in ten thousand — if ever; by all means
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
蠆chàithe scorpion rehoused — 's old beast with 虫 added億yìthe next step up — a hundred million