拼音
- qiān (first tone, high and level)
thousand; a great many
字形拆解
- 人sound partThe graph began as 人 rén, a person, whose sound was borrowed for the number.
- 十shape partno entry yetThe horizontal tally stroke drawn across the figure. In the modern three strokes it has merged with the body and now reads as the 十 under which the character is filed.
Mnemonic
A person 人 with a single stroke drawn across the body: the person gave the sound, the stroke did the counting. In the modern three strokes the body has flattened into the falling stroke on top and the rest reads as 十, which is where dictionaries file it. Write it beside 干 and watch the first stroke — 千 begins with a falling stroke, 干 with a flat horizontal. In counting, 两千 is preferred to 二千, exactly as 两百 is to 二百.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
含“千”的词
- 千qiān (first tone, high and level)数词，十个百
- 千万千萬qiān (first tone, high and level) wàn (fourth tone, falling)ten million
- 成千上万成千上萬chéng (second tone, rising) qiān (first tone, high and level) shàng (fourth tone, falling) wàn (fourth tone, falling)lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
- 千方百计千方百計qiān (first tone, high and level) fāng (first tone, high and level) bǎi (third tone, dipping) jì (fourth tone, falling)lit. thousand ways
- 千克qiān (first tone, high and level) kè (fourth tone, falling)kilogram
- 千家万户千家萬戶qiān (first tone, high and level) jiā (first tone, high and level) wàn (fourth tone, falling) hù (fourth tone, falling)every family (idiom)
- 千钧一发千鈞一髮qiān (first tone, high and level) jūn (first tone, high and level) yī (first tone, high and level) fà (fourth tone, falling)a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom)
- 千变万化千變萬化qiān (first tone, high and level) biàn (fourth tone, falling) wàn (fourth tone, falling) huà (fourth tone, falling)countless changes
- 千军万马千軍萬馬qiān (first tone, high and level) jūn (first tone, high and level) wàn (fourth tone, falling) mǎ (third tone, dipping)magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower