仟

仟

See also: 千, 任, and 件

仟 U+4EDF, 仟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EDF ← 仞 [U+4EDE] CJK Unified Ideographs 仠 → [U+4EE0]

Translingual

Han character

仟 (radical 9, 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人竹十 (OHJ), four-corner 2224₀, composition ⿰亻千)

References

• KangXi: page 93, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 380
• Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 114, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4EDF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		仟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (人) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
千	*sn̥ʰiːn
仟	*sn̥ʰiːn
芊	*sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
阡	*sn̥ʰiːn
汘	*sn̥ʰiːn
迁	*sn̥ʰiːn
杄	*sn̥ʰiːn
人	*njin
仁	*njin
朲	*njin
佞	*neːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chheng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹
    • Yale: chīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng
    • Tâi-lô: tshing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰen/▼

Rime
Character	仟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蒼先切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰen/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰen/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛn/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰen/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰien/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sn̥ʰiːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	仟
Reading #	1/1
No.	10793
Phonetic component	人
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	千
Old Chinese	/*sn̥ʰiːn/
Notes	見史記

Definitions

仟

1. (historical) leader of one thousand men
2. (financial) Alternative form of 千 (“thousand”).
3. ^† Alternative form of 阡 (“footpath between fields going north/south”).
4. ^† Alternative form of 芊 (“lush (vegetation)”).

Compounds

仟仟 仟伯

仟眠 田連仟伯／田连仟伯

田連仟佰／田连仟佰

See also

Chinese numbers
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	102	103	104	108	1012
Normal (小寫／小写)	〇	一	二	三	四	五	六	七	八	九	十	百	千	萬／万	億／亿	兆 (Taiwan) 萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial (大寫／大写)	零	壹	貳／贰	參／叁	肆	伍	陸／陆	柒	捌	玖	拾	佰	仟

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Japanese

Kanji

仟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: かしら (kashira, 仟); ち (chi, 仟)

Noun

仟 (hiragana せん, rōmaji sen)

1. thousand, 1000

Usage notes

This form of 1000 is only used in legal documents. The usual form is 千.

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Korean

Hanja

仟 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn)

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