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千 kanji
thousand
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セン
Kun readings
ち
Words with 千
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —無念千万being really disappointed; feeling utterly mortified; being deeply vexed
- —目元千両beautiful eyes; bright-eyed; there being a sublime charm about one's eyes
- —度胸千両being bold; daring; plucky; having a lot of guts; being quite nerveless
- —迂闊千万very careless; quite thoughtless
- —一擲千金being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat
- —千載不磨still remaining after a thousand years; immortal
- —千緒万端all sorts of things; all manner of affairs
- —八万四千many; 84,000
- —壁立千仞precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth
- —千本鳥居rows of torii gates (e.g. at Kyoto's Fushimi Inari shrine); torii corridor
- —千本占地Lyophyllum fumosum (species of mushroom)
- —黄金千貫sweet potato variety (often used in shōchū brewing)
- —千本格子lattice of evenly spaced vertical timber bars (used in facades, etc.)
- —一目千本place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance (esp. Mount Yoshino in Nara Prefecture)
- —伊豆千両Maesa japonica (species of flowering plant)
- —千秋万歳may you live a thousand years
- —千年王国millennium; millennial kingdom (of Christ)
- —一髪千鈞hanging by a thread; being in imminent danger; critical situation; a thousand weights on a single hair
- —千切り大根dried radish strips
- —千慮の一失the mistake of a wise man