ten thousand

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English numbers (edit)
100,000[a], [b]
 ←  9,000 [a], [b], [c] ←  9,999 10,000 11,000  →  100,000  → [a], [b]
1,000
    Cardinal: ten thousand, myriad
    Ordinal: ten-thousandth, myriadth
    Multiplier: tenthousandfold, myriadfold
    Group collective: myriad
    Metric collective prefix: myria-
    Metric fractional prefix: dimi-
    Number of years: decamillennium

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ten thousand

  1. The cardinal number 10,000.
    • 1943, Kwok Ying Fung, “Out of Yesterday”, in China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 15:
      China chose resistance.
      This resistance brought suffering that affected each individual. It gave even the young children national consciousness. It put the marching song of the soldiers upon their lips. The children cry the fulfillment of a prediction when they sing "Chi-lai, chi-lai . . ."—"Arise, arise . . . ten thousand with one heart."

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