仟

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See also: 千, 任, and 件
仟 U+4EDF, 仟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EDF
← 仞
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仠 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

仟 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人竹十 (OHJ), four-corner 22240, composition ⿰亻千)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 93, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 380
  • Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 114, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4EDF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 仟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (人) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
千 *sn̥ʰiːn
仟 *sn̥ʰiːn
芊 *sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
阡 *sn̥ʰiːn
汘 *sn̥ʰiːn
迁 *sn̥ʰiːn
杄 *sn̥ʰiːn
人 *njin
仁 *njin
朲 *njin
佞 *neːŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 仟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 蒼先切
Baxter tshen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰɛn/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰen/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰien/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cin1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 仟
Reading # 1/1
No. 10793
Phonetic
component 		人
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		千
Old
Chinese 		/*sn̥ʰiːn/
Notes 見史記

Definitions

仟

  1. (historical) leader of one thousand men
  2. (financial) Alternative form of 千 (“thousand”)
  3. † Alternative form of 阡 (“footpath between fields going north/south”)
  4. † Alternative form of 芊 (“lush (vegetation)”)

Compounds

See also

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 106 108 1012
Normal
(小寫／小写) 		〇, 零, 空 一, 蜀 二, 兩／两 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬／万,
十千 (Malaysia, Singapore) 		百萬／百万,
桶(Philippines),
面桶 (Philippines) 		億／亿 兆 (Taiwan)
萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial
(大寫／大写) 		零 壹 貳／贰 參／叁 肆 伍 陸／陆 柒 捌 玖 拾 佰 仟

Japanese

Kanji

仟

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: せん (sen)
  • Kan-on: せん (sen)
  • Kun: かしら (kashira, 仟)、ち (chi, 仟)
  • Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

Noun

仟(せん) • (sen) 

  1. (financial, archaic) thousand

Usage notes

This form of 1000 is only used in legal documents. The usual form is 千.

Korean

Hanja

仟 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn)

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