千 (qiān)
thousand
How 千 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- ㇒ — N/A
- Traditional
- 千
- Simplified
- 千 (unchanged)
Components
- ㇒ N/A
- 十 ten
Common words using 千
- 千萬 qiānwàn
- ten million; countless; many
- 千億 qiānyì
- myriads; hundred billion
- 千千萬萬 qiānqiānwànwàn
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- 千古 qiāngǔ
- for all eternity; throughout all ages
- 千年 qiānnián
- millennium
- 千方百計 qiānfāngbǎijì
- lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
- 千瘡百孔 qiānchuāngbǎikǒng
- riddled with gaping wounds; afflicted with all ills
- 千言萬語 qiānyánwànyǔ
- thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say; talking nonstop
- 千軍萬馬 qiānjūnwànmǎ
- magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower; all the King's horses and all the King's men
- 千辛萬苦 qiānxīnwànkǔ
- to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
- 千金 qiānjīn
- thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold; money and riches; (honorific) invaluable (support)
- 幾千 jǐqiān
- several thousand
千 in a sentence
這台電腦要三千塊。
Zhè tái diànnǎo yào sānqiān kuài.
“This computer costs three thousand dollars.”
How common is 千?
千 is the 599th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 79.6% of all running text.
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