千 – vocab dash

Keyword

thousand

Frequency: #195
Strokes: 3
Grade: 1
JLPT (old): N4
Heisig: 40

Readings

セン50%

ち50%

Mnemonic

Slap a slash to the left on top of a ten, and the total balloons into a thousand with all those extra zeroes.

Stroke order

Composed of

丿slash left 十ten

Used in kanji

手hand 重heavy 垂droop 舌tongue 挿insert 仟thousand 刋whittle 芊exuberant and vigorous foliage 迁move 阡thousand 乖diverge 瓩kilogram 秊year 竏kilolitre 粁kilometer 揷insert

Used in vocabulary

thousand; 1,000

Numeric

三さん千ぜん

3000; three thousand; many

Numeric

Chiba (city, prefecture)

Noun

四よん千せん

four thousand; 4,000

Numeric

千せん九きゅう百ひゃく年ねん代だい

the 1900s

Noun

thousand years; thousand generations; thousand ages; eternity

Noun

何なん千ぜん

many thousands

Noun

一いっ千せん

1,000; one thousand

Numeric

千せん里り

1000 ri; (a) long distance

Noun

千ち島しま列れっ島とう

Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands

Noun

数すう千せん

thousands; several thousand

Noun

千せん円えん

1000 yen

Noun

千せん円えん札さつ

1,000 yen bill

Noun

千せん秋しゅう楽らく

final day of a performance; closing date; final show; final day of a tournament

Noun

千ち島しま

Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands

Noun

千せん秋しゅう

thousand years; many years

Noun

千せん尋じん

great depth; bottomless; great height

Noun

千ち歳とせ

thousand years; millennium; eternity

Noun

千せん載ざい

thousand years; millennium; perpetuity; eternity

Noun

八や千ち代よ

very long period; forever; eight thousand years

Noun

千ち鳥どり

plover

Noun

千ち切ぎる

to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to tear up; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to tear off; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily; to do ... vigorously

Godan verb

千ち切ぎれる

to be torn off; to come off; to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds

Ichidan verb

千せん差さ万ばん別べつ

an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging

Na-adjective