千“thousand” Kanjichi / sen
How to write 千
Meaning and readings
Meaning
thousand
Onyomi (音読み)
- せん sen
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- ち chi
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
何千もの人々がそこにいた。
Thousands of people were there.
千 (せん)
一千万円くらいかな？
Is it about ten million yen?
一千 (いっせん)
その本に２千円出したんだ。
I paid two thousand yen for the book.
千 (せん)
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