千 — thousand

Grade 1 kanji · 3 strokes · on'yomi sen · kun'yomi chi.

A person (人) with a horizontal roof — a thousand people under one roof.

Example words

• 千円 — senen — 1000 yen
• 千年 — sennen — 1000 years

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