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[lojban] Does Lojban have an equivalent of 萬/만/万 (10 thousand)?



I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different number scales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than 10 thousand, we use another word, namely '萬/万(wan4)' in Chinese, '만/萬(man)' in Korean and '万'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it exists in other East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead of keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17 thousand' sounds very confusing. 

If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an equivalent word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never been thought about?

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