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千

qiān

thousand

Phonosemantic compound. 一 represents the meaning and 亻 represents the sound.

Components
一 meaning component

一  Meaning component

yī

  

one

亻 sound component

亻  Sound component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

Evolution

千 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
千 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
千 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
千 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
千 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

千  

qiān

thousand; many, numerous; very; (Cant.) a cheater, swindler

千 (韆) 

qiān

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiū​qiān]

Most common words with 千
Freq.
Word
Meaning

千万

ten million

千

thousand

几千

several thousand

千瓦

kilowatt (unit of electric power)

成千上万

innumerable

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)

歼 芊 釺 钎

Sound component in 10 characters (1 verified)

迁 歼 纤 忏 阡 仟 芊 扦 釺 钎

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.n̥ˤi[ŋ]

tshen

qiān

thousand


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 51.8020% of movies

747th most common character in movies

599th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+5343

Shuowen

“千，十百也。从十，从人。”


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