Character · Numbers
千
せんり senriせんじょう senjōせんりょ senryoせんにち sennichi
thousand
Composition
Origin
The old script adds a stroke to the sign for person (人), used for its sound: a thousand.
In the thoughts
- 千里senrithousand leagues
- 千丈senjōa thousand fathoms
- 千慮senryothousand thoughts
- 千日sennichithousand days
- 千載senzaithousand years
Proverbs carrying this character
- 003 千里の道も一歩から A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
- 079 千丈の堤も蟻の一穴から The tallest dike fails through an ant's hole.
- 180 千慮の一失 In a thousand thoughts, one slip.
- 198 千日の稽古を鍛とし、万日の稽古を錬とす A thousand days of practice to forge; ten thousand to polish.
- 237 千載一遇 One meeting in a thousand years.