千
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thousand
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 十 +1
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 千
- Common rank
- #416
- Unicode
- U+5343
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Formation & memory
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How 千 is formed
How to remember it
thousand · Heisig RSH #39
eyedropper + 十 ten
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 千
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千山区 | Qianshan, a district of Anshan City 鞍山市[An1 shan1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 一日千里 | lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress | |
| 一字千金 | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy… | |
| 一言千金 | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice; words of enormous weight | |
| 在家千日好，出门一时难 | lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home … | |
| 说一千，道一万 | when all is said and done; at the end of the day | |
| 好事不出门，恶事传千里 | lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles; a good deed… | |
| 千里之外 | thousand miles distant | |
| 千里马 | lit. ten thousand mile horse; fine steed | |
| 千阳县 | Qianyang, a county in Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 万水千山 | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey; a … | |
| 上下五千年 | Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章[Cao2 Yu2 … | |
| 千金方 | Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Si… | |
| 出老千 | to cheat (in gambling) | |
| 千里眼 | clairvoyance | |
| 千里马常有，而伯乐不常有 | (lit.) there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (proverb); (fig.) many … | |
| 成百上千 | hundreds; a large number; lit. by the hundreds and thousands | |
| 千字文 | Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer | |
| 平方千米 | square kilometer | |
| 成千上万 | (lit.) by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); (fig.) untold numbers; innumerable;… |
Sound family
These characters use 千 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千 sound part | thousand; many, numerous; very | |
| 纤 | fine, delicate; tiny, minute | |
| 迁 | to shift, to move; to transfer, to change | |
| 阡 | path; a foot-path between fields | |
| 扦 | to probe, to poke, to pierce, to pick at | |
| 忏 | to regret, to repent; confession, penitence | |
| 仟 | one thousand; leader of one thousand men |