Kanji

千

thousand

Kanji

Grade

Grade 1

Strokes

3 strokes

Radical

十部

On'yomi (Chinese Reading)

セン

Kun'yomi (Japanese Reading)

Nanori (Name Reading)

かず, ち, ゆき

Common Readings

セン, ち

Example sentences

せん
千円貸してください。

Please lend me a thousand yen.

につき につき
一人につき、千円です。

It is 1,000 yen per person.

千年 せんねん
この建物は千年前からここにあります。

This building has been here for a thousand years.

みやこ
京都は千年以上もの間、日本の都でした。

Kyoto was the capital of Japan for over a thousand years.

何千 なんぜん
彼は何千回も同じ練習を繰り返した。

He repeated the same practice thousands of times.

総帥 そうすい
彼は巨大な企業グループの総帥として、何千人もの従業員を率いている。

As the head of a massive corporate group, he leads thousands of employees.

数千 すうせん
会場には数千人の人が集まった。

Several thousand people gathered at the venue.

数千騎の武者が平原を駆け抜けていった。

Thousands of mounted warriors galloped across the plain.

千切れる ちぎれる
寒さで耳が千切れそうだ。

My ears feel like they're going to tear off from the cold.

三千 さんぜん
この寺には、三千人以上の僧侶が住んでいたと言われている。

It is said that more than three thousand monks lived in this temple.

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