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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)

千赫
qiānhè
kilohertz
千秋
qiānqiū
a thousand years
千克
qiānkè
kilogram
千叶
Qiānyè
Chiba, Japan
千伏
qiānfú
kilovolt
老千
lǎoqiān
cheat
成千
chéngqiān
thousands
千阳
Qiānyáng
Qianyang County in Baoji [[寶雞|宝鸡<Bǎojī>]], Shaanxi
千帕
qiānpà
kiloPascal (kPa, unit of pressure)
打千
dǎqiān
genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand
千夫
qiānfū
a lot of people (literary)
千吨
qiāndūn
kiloton
千瓦
qiānwǎ
kilowatt (unit of electric power)
千古
qiāngǔ
for all eternity
千米
qiānmǐ
kilometer
千里
qiānlǐ
a thousand miles
千年
qiānnián
millennium
几千
jǐqiān
several thousand
千金
qiānjīn
thousand jin [[斤]] (pounds) of gold
千兆
qiānzhào
giga-

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