仟

See also: 千, 任, and 件

仟 U+4EDF, 仟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EDF ← 仞 [U+4EDE] CJK Unified Ideographs 仠 → [U+4EE0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

仟 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+3, 5 strokes, Cangjie input 人竹十 (OHJ), four-corner 2224₀, composition ⿰亻千)

Derived characters

• 𫰙, 𬫊, 𦭛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 93, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 380
• Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 114, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4EDF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (人) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
千	*sn̥ʰiːn
仟	*sn̥ʰiːn
芊	*sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
阡	*sn̥ʰiːn
汘	*sn̥ʰiːn
迁	*sn̥ʰiːn
杄	*sn̥ʰiːn
人	*njin
仁	*njin
朲	*njin
佞	*neːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chheng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹chi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cian
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹
    • Yale: chyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cin¹
    • Yale: chīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng
    • Tâi-lô: tshing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhefng
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɪŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹chi
    • MiniDict: chi^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹qi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshen

Rime
Character	仟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蒼先切
Baxter	tshen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰen/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰen/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛn/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰen/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰien/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sn̥ʰiːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	仟
Reading #	1/1
No.	10793
Phonetic component	人
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	千
Old Chinese	/*sn̥ʰiːn/
Notes	見史記

Definitions

仟

1. (historical) leader of one thousand men
2. (financial) alternative form of 千 (“thousand”)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 阡 (“footpath between fields going north/south”)
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 芊 (“lush (vegetation)”)

Compounds

• 仟仟
• 仟伯
• 仟眠
• 田連仟伯 / 田连仟伯
• 田連仟佰 / 田连仟佰

See also

Chinese numbers
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	102	103	104	106	108	1012
Normal (小寫 / 小写)	〇, 零, 空	一, 蜀	二, 兩 / 两	三	四	五	六	七	八	九	十	百	千	萬 / 万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)	百萬 / 百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines)	億 / 亿	兆 (Taiwan) 萬億 / 万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial (大寫 / 大写)	零	壹	貳 / 贰	參 / 叁	肆	伍	陸 / 陆	柒	捌	玖	拾	佰	仟

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.

Japanese

Kanji

仟

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: かしら (kashira, 仟)、ち (chi, 仟)
• Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

Noun

仟(せん) • (sen) 

1. (financial, archaic) thousand

Usage notes

This form of 1000 is only used in legal documents. The usual form is 千.

See also

Japanese numbers
Number	Kanji	Kana	Romaji
0	零	れい, ゼロ	rei, zero
1	一, 壱, 壹, 弌	いち	ichi
2	二, 弐, 貳, 貮	に	ni
3	三, 参, 參	さん	san
4	四, 肆	よん, し	yon, shi
5	五, 伍	ご	go
6	六, 陸	ろく	roku
7	七, 漆	なな, しち	nana, shichi
8	八, 捌	はち	hachi
9	九, 玖	きゅう, く	kyū, ku
10	十, 拾	じゅう	jū
100	百, 陌, 佰	ひゃく	hyaku
1,000	千, 阡, 仟	せん	sen
10,000	一万, 万, 一萬, 萬	いちまん, まん	ichiman, man
100,000,000	一億, 億	いちおく, おく	ichioku, oku

Korean

Hanja

仟 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn)

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