HSK 4 · Function Words

千万 qiānwàn “be sure to” in Chinese

Traditional 千萬

What 千万 means

  1. be sure to
  2. whatever you do
  3. ten million
  4. countless
  5. many
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • one must by all means

How to say 千万

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale千qiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale万wàn4th tone, falling

千万 in a sentence

  1. 千万别误会我的意思。

    Qiānwàn bié wùhuì wǒ de yìsi.

    Please don’t get me wrong.

    Sentence #4282947 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 千万不要！

    Qiānwàn búyào!

    Whatever you do, don’t!

    Sentence #9778760 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 做事千万别过于急切，把事情搞砸了。

    Zuòshì qiānwàn bié guòyú jíqiè, bǎ shìqing gǎozá le.

    Whatever you do, don’t rush things and mess them up.

    Sentence #10081664 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 千万 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
The character 万 (wàn) drawn as one shape
万wànten thousand

万 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 千万

千 3 strokes · 万 3 strokes

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

千万 (qiānwàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 千万 (qiānwàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 千万

Words with 千

千qiān · thousand千方百计qiānfāngbǎijì · by every possible means

Words with 万

万wàn · ten thousand万一wànyī · just in case万分wànfēn · extremely

More words: Particles & Connectors

内nèi · inside篇piān · measure word for articles and essays其次qícì · next其中qízhōng · among全部quánbù · whole却què · but确实quèshí · indeed然而rán'ér · however

FAQs

千万 (qiānwàn) means “be sure to” or “whatever you do”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it qiānwàn: qiān with a 1st tone, then wàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 千万 is written 千萬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qianwan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 千万 from the suggestions. Typing qianwan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
千万 is an HSK 4 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.