Illustration: From an upper concourse of a large Japanese baseball stadium, densely occupied seating tiers curve around the entire field, holding a crowd on the scale of several tens of thousands. Individual spectators are distinct near the railing and become countless small figures across the distant stands.

JLPT N3no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

数すう万まん

suuman

tens of thousands

Example sentences

  1. 熱帯雨林ねったいうりんは一日いちにち数万すうまんヘクタールの割合わりあいでなくなっている。

    The rainforests are disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of hectares a day.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 新田軍にったぐんは数万すうまん規模きぼに膨ふくれ上あがったと言いわれる。

    Thus it is said that the Nitta army grew to a number in the tens of thousands.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. ここは日本有数にっぽんゆうすうのツバメのねぐらといわれ、8～9月がつに掛かけての最盛期さいせいきには数万すうまん羽わのツバメをみることができる。

    It is considered to be one of the largest roosting sites of swallows in Japan where several tens of thousands of swallows can be seen during the peak period in August through September.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 数万

  • 数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば
  • 万ten thousand; 10,000Onマン・バンKunよろず

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