Meanings
Numeric
1. 1,000; thousand
阡 and 仟 are used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (16 in total)
great depth; bottomless; great height
a large number; all sorts; hundreds and thousands
great variety of flowering plants; light greenish-blue; various
Kurile Islands
thousand times
thousand years; very long period; forever
8000; eight thousand; many
many layers; many piles
countless number; extremely large number
Siege of Chihaya (Genkō War; 1333)
many nights; a thousand nights
soaking in dye innumerable times
to act violently (roughly, rashly)
Chisato Station
Chikuma Station
Chiya Dam
Examples (24 in total)
Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
There were about a thousand people.
There are about a thousand students in all.