HSK 2 · Numbers

千 qiān “thousand” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 千 means

  1. thousand

How to say 千

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale千qiān1st tone, high and level

千 in a sentence

  1. 他有一千多本书。

    Tā yǒu yì qiān duō běn shū.

    He has more than a thousand books.

    Sentence #3378253 from Tatoeba

  2. 五千元是很多钱。

    Wǔ qiān yuán shì hěn duō qián.

    Five thousand yuan is a lot of money.

    Sentence #3283115 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 那台电脑是花三千块买的。

    Nà tái diànnǎo shì huā sān qiān kuài mǎi de.

    That computer cost three thousand yuan.

    Sentence #2737441 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 千 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 千 (qiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
千qiānthousand
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 十ten · shí

How to write 千

千 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

千 (qiān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 千 (qiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 千

Words with 千

千万qiānwàn · be sure to千方百计qiānfāngbǎijì · by every possible means

More words: Numbers & Money

一yī · one二èr · two百bǎi · hundred第一dìyī · first件jiàn · measure word for clothes零líng · zero两liǎng · two (of)次cì · times

FAQs

千 (qiān) means “thousand”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it qiān: qiān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 千 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 千 from the suggestions. Typing qian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
千 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.