千
千 — cheon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 일천 천
- Romanization
- cheon
- English
- thousand; many, numerous; very; (Cant.) a cheater, swindler
- Mandarin
- qiān
- Japanese on'yomi
- セン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ち
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #195 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 十 (24, 1 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5343
Parts that make up 千
How 千 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 千 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 一, 人.
Korean example words with 千
- 천군千軍 Korean gloss: 많은 군사
- 천년千年 Korean gloss: 오랜 세월
- 천봉千峯 Korean gloss: 수많은 봉우리
- 천척千尺 Korean gloss: 매우 높은 높이
- 천고千古 Korean gloss: 아주 오랜 세월 동안
- 천산千山 Korean gloss: 이곳저곳에 있는 여러 산
- 천금千金 Korean gloss: 아주 귀중한 것을 비유적으로 이르는 말
- 천백千百 Korean gloss: 천 또는 백이라는 뜻으로, 많은 수를 이르는 말
- 천재千載 Korean gloss: 천 년이나 되는 세월이라는 뜻으로, 오랜 세월을 이르는 말
- 천배千倍 Korean gloss: 천 곱절이라는 뜻으로, 비교할 수 없을 만큼 아주 많은 수량이나 정도를 이르는 말
- 일천一千 Korean gloss: 백의 열 배가 되는 수. 또는 그 수의
- 기천幾千 Korean gloss: 천의 몇 배가 되는 수. 또는 그런 수의
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 千
- 千せん thousand; 1,000
- 千代ちよ thousand years; thousand generations; thousand ages
- 千里せんり 1000 ri; (a) long distance
- 千秋楽せんしゅうらく final day of a performance; closing date; final show
- 千島ちしま Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands
- 千九百年代せんきゅうひゃくねんだい the 1900s
- 何千なんぜん many thousands
- 八千代やちよ very long period; forever; eight thousand years
- 千鳥ちどり plover
- 千島列島ちしまれっとう Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands
- 千秋せんしゅう thousand years; many years
- 千差万別せんさばんべつ an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
Characters sharing the phonetic 千
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “천” in Korean.
Other hanja read “천”
Other hanja with radical 十
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences