千

See also 仟, 壬, and 干

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) 千 is a pictograph of a person (compare the form of 人 used in combinations, 亻) with a line drawn near shin to indicate an extension (see the etymologies of 年 and 延). 千 has the meaning one thousand because one thousand is a number that is reached by extending one's counting.

Han character

千 (radical 24 十+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹十 (HJ), four-corner 2040₀, composition ⿱丿十)

1. thousand
2. many, numerous
3. very

See also

• Chinese Numeral 千

  Last: 百; Next: 万, 萬.

Descendants

• チ

References

• KangXi: page 155, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2697
• Dae Jaweon: page 351, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 59, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5343
• http://www.kanjinetworks.com/eng/kanji-dictionary/online-kanji-etymology-dictionary.cfm

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Cantonese

Hanzi

千 (Yale chin1)

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Japanese

Number

千 (hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. thousand

Noun

千 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. thousand

Kanji

千 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ち (chi)
• Nanori: かず (kazu), ゆき (yuki)

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Korean

Hanja

千
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 천 (revised: cheon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏn)

• Name (hangeul): 일천()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

千 (pinyin qiān (qian1), Wade-Giles ch'ien1)

Compounds

千里姻缘一线牵 (千里姻緣一線牽)

See also

• 百
• 万

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Min Nan

Hanzi

千 (POJ chheng (chheng¹), chhian (chhian¹))

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Vietnamese

Han character

千 (thiên)