Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 1
千 thousand
- Meaning
- thousand
- On reading
- セン
- Kun reading
- ち
Memory hook
A short slash on top of 十 (ten): ten with something extra piled on, so a great deal more than ten. セン, becoming ぜん in 三千.
Words that use 千
千
せん
thousand
三千
さんぜん
3,000
How to write 千
Stroke order · 3 strokes
1
2
3
- 1. The sweep down to the left.
- 2. The horizontal across the middle.
- 3. The vertical through the centre.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
千 is taught on day 4 of the kanji course, alongside 百 万 円, with two writing passes and a short quiz.