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Kanji Detail for 千 - "thousand, thousand times"

千

  • Meaning

    千 means "thousand, thousand times." Also associated with many.

    1. Thousand - A number; ten times one hundred.

    2. Thousand times - A thousand occurrences.

    3. Many - Representing a large quantity.

  • Words using 千

    • 千代 ちよ Listen thousand years; thousand generations; thousand ages
    • 千里 せんり Listen 1000 ri; (a) long distance
    • 千島 ちしま Listen Kurile Islands
    • 千九百年代 せんきゅうひゃくねんだい Listen the 1900s
    • 何千 なんぜん Listen many thousands
    • 八千代 やちよ Listen very long period; forever; eight thousand years
    • 千鳥 ちどり Listen plover
    • 千島列島 ちしまれっとう Listen Kurile Islands

  • Four-character idioms with 千

    • 一攫千金 いっかくせんきん Listen getting rich quick; making a killing; making a fortune at a single stroke
    • 千差万別 せんさばんべつ Listen an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
    • 千載一遇 せんざいいちぐう Listen once-in-a-lifetime (opportunity); golden (opportunity); one-in-a-million (chance)
    • 一人当千 いちにんとうせん Listen being a match for a thousand
    • 一刻千金 いっこくせんきん Listen every moment is precious; time is money; precious time
    • 一字千金 いちじせんきん Listen word of great value

  • Origin of 千

    人, a person, lending the old sound, crossed by 一: people counted by the line — a thousand as a crowd marked once.

    How to remember it: A person 人 wearing a tally-line — count people long enough and you reach a thousand.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 千

    • Verified meaning: thousand, thousand times
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read う, せん, せんざき, せんじ)
    • Also carries these associations: many

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 千

    Given names 千(せん)Listen 千(ゆき)Listen

    Surnames 千(う)Listen 千(せんざき)Listen 千(せんじ)Listen 千(せんの)Listen 千(ち)Listen 千(ちたび)Listen 千(ちよん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    thousand

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    thousand; many, numerous; very; (Cant.) a cheater, swindler

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    thousand

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    thousand; many, numerous; very

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A number name. Ten tens is one hundred. Ten hundreds is one thousand. | Meaning of extreme. Like saying countless. Such as 千乞 (earnestly beg), 千難 (extremely difficult).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sen(セン) セン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    chi(ち) ち

  • Strokes

    tip

    3 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    十 (ju)

  • Related Keywords

    thousand thousand times many countless huge large millennium multitude myriad number numerous substantial

Sentences including 千

  • He has no less than two thousand yen with him.

  • Thousands of people visited the city.

  • This is five thousand yen in the japanese yen.

  • He gave me no less than five thousand yen.

  • Five thousand yen is enough to buy this dictionary.

  • She has two thousand books.

  • Thousands of people were there.

  • I paid two thousand yen for the book.

  • I have only five thousand yen.

  • He paid 1,000 yen for this book.

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