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10,000 ichi-man
               20,000 ni-man
               30,000 san-man
               40,000 yon-man
               50,000 go-man
               60,000 roku-man
               70,000 nana-man

               80,000 hachi-man
               90,000 kyū-man
               0 rei/ zero
               how many 100’s?
               how many 1000’s?
               how many 10,000’s?

               nan-byaku
               nan-zen
               nan-man


                   GRAMMAR NOTE Numbers Above 100

               In English numbers are grouped by thousands, millions, billions, and thus you

               see a comma after every three places to the left of the decimal—1,000,000,000.
               In Japanese, numbers are counted in groups of four places and traditionally a
               comma was inserted every four places—10,0000,0000. Ten thousand in Japanese
               has a special name man, and succeeding groups of four places, have the names -
               oku “one hundred million”, and -chō “one trillion”.
                   Note that you need to say ichi only for the last place in each four-place group.
               So, 10, 100 and 1000 do not require ichi.

                         1    ichi               10,000     ichi-man
                       10     jū               100,000      jū-man

                      100     hyaku          1,000,000      hyaku-man
                    1,000     sen          10,000,000       sen-man



               ¥1111,1111 is sen hyaku jū ichi man sen hyaku jū ichi en.


               Also note the following sound changes.
                For 100s (hyaku)            h → b              300 sanbyaku

                                                               ?00 nanbyaku (how many hundreds?)
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