Chinese symbol for “contingency”
万一
wàn yī
Traditional: 萬一
just in case; if by any chance; contingency
The closest CC-CEDICT match for contingency is 万一 (wàn yī), defined as: just in case; if by any chance; contingency.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “contingency”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 万一.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万人 (萬人) | wàn rén | ten thousand people; all the people |
| 千万 (千萬) | qiān wàn | ten million; countless |
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
| 万名 (萬名) | wàn míng | all names |
| 一个 (一個) | yī ge | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 一样 (一樣) | yī yàng | same; like |
See also: Japanese symbol for “contingency”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.