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千

qiān

HSK 2 Character

What 千 means

1. thousand

Other readings

千 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• qiānused in {秋千|qiū qiān}

Example sentences

• 千万不要!
  Please don't!
• 我爱千层面。
  I love lasagna.
• 数千人失业。
  Thousands of people lost their jobs.
• 千万不要自杀。
  Never try to die.
• 她有两千本书。
  She has two thousand books.
• 千斤顶在桌上。
  The car jack was on the table.

Words starting with 千

• 千万qiān wànten million; countless; many
• 千方百计qiān fāng bǎi jìlit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
• 千金qiān jīnthousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold; money and riches; (honorific) invaluable (support)
• 千古qiān gǔfor all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity…
• 千米qiān mǐkilometer
• 千千万万qiān qiān wàn wànlit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable…
• 千秋qiān qiūa thousand years; your birthday (honorific)
• 千克qiān kèkilogram
• 千篇一律qiān piān yī lǜthousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive…
• 千辛万苦qiān xīn wàn kǔto suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty…
• 千里之外qiān lǐ zhī wàithousand miles distant
• 千里迢迢qiān lǐ tiáo tiáo(idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar
• 千真万确qiān zhēn wàn quèabsolutely true (idiom); manifold; true from many points of view
• 千里马qiān lǐ mǎlit. ten thousand mile horse; fine steed
• 千叶Qiān yèChiba (Japanese surname, prefecture, and city)
• 千瓦qiān wǎkilowatt
• 千言万语qiān yán wàn yǔthousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say; talking nonstop
• 千奇百怪qiān qí bǎi guàifantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
• 千变万化qiān biàn wàn huàcountless changes; constant permutation
• 千丝万缕qiān sī wàn lǚ(idiom) intricately interconnected
• 千军万马qiān jūn wàn mǎmagnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom)…
• 千家万户qiān jiā wàn hùevery family (idiom)
• 千姿百态qiān zī bǎi tài(idiom) to come in many different shapes; to display a great variety of forms
• 千载难逢qiān zǎi nán féngextremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon

Words containing 千

• 几千jǐ qiānseveral thousand
• 成千上万chéng qiān shàng wàn(lit.) by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); (fig.) untold numbers…
• 秋千qiū qiānswing (seat hung from a frame or branch)
• 大千世界dà qiān shì jiègreat wide world; marvelously diverse world; (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界
• 成百上千chéng bǎi shàng qiānhundreds; a large number; lit. by the hundreds and thousands
• 一落千丈yī luò qiān zhànglit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom); fig. (of business, popularity etc) to…
• 成千chéng qiānthousands
• 数以千计shù yǐ qiān jìthousands (of sth)
• 各有千秋gè yǒu qiān qiūeach has its own merits (idiom)
• 万水千山wàn shuǐ qiān shānten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey…
• 张大千Zhāng Dà qiānChang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the…
• 一掷千金yī zhì qiān jīnlit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom)…
• 荡秋千dàng qiū qiānto swing (on a swing)
• 打千dǎ qiāngenuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the…
• 老千lǎo qiānswindler; cheat (in gambling)
• 万千wàn qiānmyriad; multitudinous; multifarious
• 两千年liǎng qiān niánthe year 2000; 2000 years
• 出老千chū lǎo qiānto cheat (in gambling)
• 杀千刀shā qiān dāodamn; friggin'; goddamn; fucking
• 一刻千金yī kè qiān jīn(idiom) time is gold; every minute is precious
• 一字千金yī zì qiān jīnone word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)…
• 一日千里yī rì qiān lǐlit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
• 一言千金yī yán qiān jīnone word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice; words of enormous weight
• 一诺千金yī nuò qiān jīn(lit.) a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold (idiom)…

Characters that look like 千

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 予yǔ(literary) to give

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 铅lead (chemistry)
• 签to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document…
• 牵to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve
• 谦modest
• 迁to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)
• 骞(literary) to hold high
• 搴to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 褰to lift (clothes, sheets); lower garments
• 悭stingy
• 仟thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 芊green; luxuriant growth
• 钎a drill (for boring through rock)