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千
qiān
1. thousand
HSK 2 Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 3 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

千
qiān
thousand; many, numerous; very
HSK 2 3 丶

Compound Words (20)

千伏
qiānfú
kilovolt
千位
qiānwèi
the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
千亿
qiānyì
myriads
千兆
qiānzhào
giga-
千克
qiānkè
kilogram
千卡
qiānkǎ
kilocalorie (Kcal)
千古
qiāngǔ
for all eternity
千周
qiānzhōu
kilocycle (KC), equals to 1,000 Hz
千吨
qiāndūn
kiloton
千夫
qiānfū
a lot of people (literary)
千帕
qiānpà
kiloPascal (kPa, unit of pressure)
千年
qiānnián
millennium
千瓦
qiānwǎ
kilowatt (unit of electric power)
千秋
qiānqiū
a thousand years
千米
qiānmǐ
kilometer
千万
qiānwàn
ten million
HSK 4
千叶
Qiānyè
Chiba, Japan
千赫
qiānhè
kilohertz
千里
qiānlǐ
a thousand miles
千金
qiānjīn
thousand jin [[斤]] (pounds) of gold

Example Sentences (2)

这个笔记本电脑我去年买的时候要五千块左右，现在便宜多了。
Zhège bǐjìběn diànnǎo wǒ qùnián mǎi de shíhou yào wǔ qiān kuài zuǒyòu, xiànzài piányi duō le.
When I bought this laptop last year, it cost around five thousand yuan. It's much cheaper now.
Text 4
三千多块。
Sān qiān duō kuài.
Over three thousand yuan.
Text 1

Alternate Entries

千
qiān
a swing
HSK 2

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
2
Character Frequency Rank
598
Word Frequency Rank
949 of 84,292