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).
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
astray, beguile, thousand, ten thousand
千載一遇
四字熟語
thousand, ride, one, meet
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.