On Reading
Chinese reading
セン
Kun Reading
Japanese reading
ち
Example Words
千せん
thousand
三千さんぜん
three thousand
千円せんえん
1000 yen
Memory Tip
Remember this kanji
A person (ノ) standing on ten (十) = 1000. Ten times ten times ten!
Common Mistakes
Watch out for
Sound change: さんぜん (3000) not さんせん. Also appears in 千葉 (ちば, Chiba).
Radical
Building block
十ten
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