まん
ten thousand
Four digits and then this character takes over, so ten thousand is 一万. Those shoes are one of them, and a man まん would have to save for it: まん.
Japanese counts in units of 10,000: 一万 is ten thousand and 十万 is a hundred thousand, so the groupings fall differently from English.
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