Can 11,000 be written １.１万?


I have seen 11,000 written as １万１０００, but not as １.１万 (the way one may write
'3.5 millions'). Is this possible?




Yes, we do sometimes utilize a large number as a unit for brevity, and of
course it is customary to use powers of 104 (万, 億, 兆...) in Japanese, instead
of those of 103 (thousand, million, billion...).

The decimal representation could be seen everywhere I think the English
counterpart would be used except when the discrepancy of order matters; for
example, beneath a viral tweet usually shown:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rzl37.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rzl37.png)

which is in the Japanese UI:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UkSOi.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UkSOi.png)

where you can see a decimal is followed by 万 (ten thousand).

As an aside, in some fiscal or statistical documents they use 103 scale (such
as 123.4千円 or 56.7百万人), in order to align the order with the international
convention. But this is quite unusual practice outside the field.

