千年

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Chinese

thousand year
simp. and trad.
(千年) 		千 年

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 千 年
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 蒼先切 奴顚切
Baxter tshen nen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɛn/ /nɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰɛn/ /nɛn/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰien/ /nien/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰien/ /nien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiān nián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cin1 nin4

Noun

千年

  1. a millennium; a thousand years; (figurative) a very long time
    紙壽千年。／纸寿千年。  ―  Zhǐ shòu qiānnián.  ―  Xuan paper has a shelf life of one thousand years.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
千 年
せん
Grade: 1 		ねん
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

千(せん)年(ねん) • (sennen) ←せんねん (sennen)?

  1. a millennium; a thousand years

Synonyms

See also

Japanese number-counter combinations for 年(ねん) (nen)
1 2 3 4 5
一(いち)年(ねん) (ichinen) 二(に)年(ねん) (ninen) 三(さん)年(ねん) (sannen) 四(よ)年(ねん) (yonen) 五(ご)年(ねん) (gonen)
6 7 8 9 10
六(ろく)年(ねん) (rokunen) 七(なな)年(ねん) (nananen)
七(しち)年(ねん) (shichinen) 		八(はち)年(ねん) (hachinen) 九(きゅう)年(ねん) (kyūnen) 十(じゅう)年(ねん) (jūnen)
100 1,000 10,000 How many?
What year?
百(ひゃく)年(ねん) (hyakunen) 千(せん)年(ねん) (sennen) 一(いち)万(まん)年(ねん) (ichimannen) 何(なん)年(ねん) (nannen)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
千年

Proper noun

千年 • (Cheonnyeon) (hangeul 천년)

  1. hanja form? of 천년 (“a millennium; a thousand years”)
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