千 — thousand
せん
千
thousand
せん
U+5343
Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard.
Freq #195
Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common.
Heisig #40
Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.
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Meanings
- thousand
Readings
- On'yomi
- せん sen
- Kun'yomi
- ち chi
word
せん ・ぜん sen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).
ち chi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).
Words by frequency and grade
16 wordsEach dot is a word containing 千: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.
S = secondary school · 13 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.
Appears in idioms
千客万来
四字熟語
thousand guest, ten thousand come
千差万別
四字熟語
thousand distinction, ten thousand separate
笑止千万
四字熟語
laugh stop, thousand ten-thousand
一騎当千
四字熟語
one equestrian, hit thousand
迷惑千万
四字熟語
great nuisance, ten thousandfold
千載一遇
四字熟語
thousand years, one meeting
あの世千日この世一日
諺
the afterlife a thousand days, this world one day
Components
Used as component in (4)
Phono-semantic compound (形声). 十 (ten) with a slanting stroke above that originally represented a person. Thousand — a great multiplied quantity.