English: thousand	On-Yomi: セン	Kun-Yomi: ち かず ゆき

Bushu (Radical) Info:
ノ (てん) – kana-no
十 (じゅう) – cross

Henshall Mnemonic: that one person is worth a thousand others

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #195 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 千   [せん]
  (num) 1,000; thousand   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 千切る   [ちぎる]
  (v5r) to cut up fine; to pick (fruit)   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 三千   [さんぜん]
  (n) 3000; many   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 一千   [いっせん]
  (n) 1,000; one thousand   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千九百年代   [せんきゅうひゃくねんだい]
  the 1900s   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千歳   [ちとせ]
  (n) millennium; one thousand years   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 何千   [なんぜん]
  many thousands   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千秋楽   [せんしゅうらく]
  (n) concluding festivities; final day of a sumo tournament; concluding program   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千切れる   [ちぎれる]
  (v1) to be torn off; to be torn to pieces   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千代   [せんだい]
  (n) (1) thousand years; (2) very long period; forever   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千鳥   [ちどり]
  (n) plover   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千島   [ちしま]
  Kurile Islands   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千島列島   [ちしまれっとう]
  (n) Kurile Islands   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 八千代   [やちよ]
  (n) eternity; thousands of years   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 千里   [せんり]
  (n-adv,n-t) 1000 ri; (a) long distance   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 四千   [よんせん]
  four thousand   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.