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Re:Five-year-old boy's 15-page CV grabs China online attention by galuggus on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:26AM (#18370627)
10,000 in Chinese often means a big number.

It is the equivalent to myriad in English.

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Re:Five-year-old boy's 15-page CV grabs China online attention by fhars on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:43AM (#18370724)
A myriad literally (literally literally, not figuratively) is 10000 in English...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad

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