千

thousand

3 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 195.

Readings

• ち (kun reading): 千葉 (ちば) Chiba (city, prefecture); 千葉県 (ちばけん) Chiba Prefecture (Kanto area)
• セン (on reading): 何千 (なんぜん) many thousands; 数千 (すうせん) thousands

Components

• 丿
• 十
• ノ radical slash, katakana no
• 十 radical ten

Kanji containing 千

• 重 heavy
• 乗 ride
• 垂 droop
• 舌 tongue
• 挿 insert
• 仟 thousand
• 刋 cut
• 阡 thousand
• 乖 oppose
• 瓩 kilogram
• 竏 kilolitre
• 粁 kilometer
• 熏 smoke

Words using 千

• 千葉 (ちば) Chiba (city, prefecture)
• 千葉県 (ちばけん) Chiba Prefecture (Kanto area)
• 千歳 (ちとせ) thousand years
• 千葉大学 (ちばだいがく) Chiba University
• 千葉ロッテマリーンズ (ちばロッテマリーンズ) Chiba Lotte Marines (Japanese pro baseball team)
• 何千 (なんぜん) many thousands
• 数千 (すうせん) thousands
• 千秋楽 (せんしゅうらく) final day of a performance
• 千切りキャベツ (せんぎりキャベツ) thinly shredded cabbage
• 千里 (せんり) 1000 ri

259 words in all.

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists