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八十万 (やそよろず) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

八十やそ万よろず

Meanings

1

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

many; a great number

archaic

Archaic word meaning 'many' or 'countless'. Used in classical Japanese; in modern contexts it appears mainly in fixed expressions or poetic language.

古こ語ごでは「やそよろずの神かみ」のように使つかわれた。
In classical Japanese, it was used as in 'yaoyorozu no kami' (countless gods).

Kanji

八eight, eight radical (no. 12)
十ten
万ten thousand, 10,000

Similar words

八百万やおよろず
八百万 (やおよろず) is a more common archaic term for 'myriad' or 'countless', often used in the phrase 八百万の神. 八十万 (やそよろず) is a variant with the same meaning but much rarer.

Etymology

Compound of 八十 (やそ, 'eighty', used here to mean 'many') and 万 (よろず, 'ten thousand', also meaning 'myriad'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it follows a pattern of using large numbers to express countlessness.