GUIDED PATH · PHASE 5

Guided Japanese Course

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TRACK 1 · 1-12

Numbers 101–100,000

Construct larger Japanese numbers using 百, 千, and 万, including key sound changes.

25 min
Before you begin
  • Numbers 1–100.
Why this matters

Large values appear in prices, user counts, logs, inventory, metrics, and identifiers. Japanese groups large numbers around 万 (10,000), which is a different mental boundary from English thousands.

1. Learn the Japanese place-value anchors

百 = 100, 千 = 1,000, 万 = 10,000. Japanese naturally treats 10,000 as a named unit: 25,000 is 二万五千, not 'twenty-five thousand' compositionally in the English way.

Place-value anchors
100ひゃく
1,000せん
10,000まん
100,000十万じゅうまん