千 — thousand
せん
千
thousand
Grade 1
Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school.
3 strokes
number
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.
Meanings
- thousand
word
せん 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).
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.