十千

Calque of English ten thousand.

十千

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) ten thousand
   • 2001, 黃一飛 [Freddie Huang], “一百萬”‎^[1]performed by 黃一飛 [Freddie Huang]:

     十千八千拿去用　免還嘛無問題 [Hokkien, trad.]
     十千八千拿去用　免还嘛无问题 [Hokkien, simp.]

     cha̍p-chheng poeh-chheng the̍h khì ēng, bián hoân mā bô-būn-tôe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Ten thousand or eight thousand bucks, take and use it, it's even okay to not pay it back

2. (literary) numerous; very many

   • 亦服爾耕，十千維耦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     亦服尔耕，十千维耦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yì fú ěr gēng, shíqiān wéi ǒu. [Pinyin]

     Attend to your ploughing,
     With your ten thousand men all in pairs.

   • 新豐美酒斗十千，咸陽遊俠多少年。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     新丰美酒斗十千，咸阳游侠多少年。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century, Wang Wei (王維), 少年行四首‧其一

     Xīnfēng měijiǔ dǒu shíqiān, Xiányáng yóuxiá duō shàonián. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• 萬／万 (wàn)

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.