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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
- —不届き千万very rude; very insolent; extremely reprehensible; outrageous
- —千里も一里a journey of a thousand miles feels like only one mile (when going to see the one you love)
- —千年王国説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —至福千年説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —すみま千円sorry; excuse me; thank you
- —千キャベツthinly shredded cabbage
- —江戸千家流Edo Senke school of tea ceremony
- —ミミズ千匹thousand earthworms (as a description for a vagina that has many folds and provides extraordinary pleasure during intercourse)
- —白髪三千丈many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
- —千一夜物語One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
- —一騎当千の兵great warrior
- —三千大千世界the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened
- —千成ほおずきcutleaf groundcherry (Physalis angulata)
- —千里金蘭大学Senri Kinran University
- —千夜一夜物語One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
- —悪事千里を走るbad news travels quickly
- —悪事千里を行くbad news travels fast
- —春宵一刻値千金a moment of time in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold
- —千切りキャベツthinly shredded cabbage
- —牛の歩みも千里slow and steady wins the race; little by little, one goes far; consistency is key