千 – Kanji details

Keyword

thousand

Info

Frequency	Top 500-600
Type	Kyōiku (1st grade) ?
Kanken	Level 10
Heisig	40
Readings	せん (52%) ち (42%) ぜん (5%)
	ぢね

Composed of

丿

slash left

十

ten

Mnemonic

An extra stroke on the top, and a ten becomes a thousand! Why? Well, three strokes, three zeroes!

Used in kanji (11 in total)

hand

heavy

tongue

droop

insert

diverge

kilometer

???

kilogram

???

kilolitre

Used in vocabulary (322 in total)

千せん

1,000; thousand

何なん千ぜん

many thousands

数すう千せん

thousands; several thousand

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Examples (91 in total)

千せん人にんくらいの人ひとがいた。

There were about a thousand people.

千せん人にんもの人ひとがそこにいた。

As many as a thousand people were there.

生せい徒とは全ぜん部ぶで約やく千せん人にんです。

There are about a thousand students in all.

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