五万 (wǔwàn): fifty thousand; 50,000

Meanings

Zhè liàng èrshǒu chē zhǐ yào wǔwàn kuài.

This used car only costs fifty thousand yuan.

Wǔwàn rén jùjí zài guǎngchǎng shang.

Fifty thousand people gathered in the square.

usage

Chinese counts in units of 万 (ten thousand). So 五万 = 5 × 10,000 = 50,000. This is a key difference from English, which groups in thousands.

五 wǔ

万 wàn