Meanings
Numeric
1. 1,000; thousand
阡 and 仟 are used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
great depth; bottomless; great height
a large number; all sorts; hundreds and thousands
countless number; extremely large number
Examples (24 in total)
Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
There were about a thousand people.
There are about a thousand students in all.
We estimate the damage at one thousand dollars.
A cubic meter corresponds to 1000 liters.
She owns two thousand books.
The trip will cost anywhere between $1,000 and $2,000.
The mountain is 2000 meters above sea level.
This hall holds two thousand people.
That restaurant prepares two thousand meals every day.
Today is 23rd November 2016.
That is a large force with 5,000 soldiers.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
The number of the people working in this city will be more than one thousand by the end of this month.
Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money.
The figures in this table are shown in thousands.
The diamond was valued at 5,000 dollars.
April 1st, 2013 is a Monday.
There are 2,000 students in the school.
This hall is capable of holding 2,000 people.
General Motors laid off 76,000 workers.
They fly about 35,000 km in eight months.
The light travels at about 186,000 miles a second.
The distance from the sun to the earth is about 93 million miles.