千

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Number 3.2 Noun 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Min Nan 6.1 Hanzi 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

千 is a pictograph of a person (compare the form of 人 used in combinations, 亻) with a line drawn near shin to indicate an extension (see the etymologies of 年 and 延). 千 has the meaning one thousand because one thousand is a number that is reached by extending one's counting.

[edit] Han character

千 (radical 24 十+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹十 (HJ), four-corner 2040₀)

1. thousand
2. many, numerous
3. very
4. Chinese Numeral 千

   Last: 百; Next: 万, 萬.

[edit] Descendants

• チ

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 155, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2697
• Dae Jaweon: page 351, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 59, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5343

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

千 (Yale chin1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Number

千 (せん, sen)

1. thousand

[edit] Noun

千 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. thousand

[edit] Kanji

千 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ち (chi)
• Nanori: かず (kazu), ゆき (yuki)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

千
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 천 (revised: cheon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏn)

• Name (hangeul): 일천()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

千 (pinyin qiān (qian1), Wade-Giles ch'ien¹)

[edit] Compounds

千里姻缘一线牵 (千里姻緣一線牽)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

千 (POJ chheng (chheng¹), chhian (chhian¹))

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

千 (thiên)