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U+5343, 千
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5343

[U+5342]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5344]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 24, +1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹十 (HJ), four-corner 20400, composition 丿)

Derived characters

Descendants

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 155, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2697
  • Dae Jaweon: page 351, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 59, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5343
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Chinese

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sn̥ʰiːn): semantic (one, signifying a number) + phonetic (OC *njin). The Old Chinese pronunciations of (OC *sn̥ʰiːn) and (OC *njin) were similar. For the component , compare its combining form .

The traditional explanation holds that the extra line indicates an extension (see the etymologies of and ). has the meaning one thousand because one thousand is a number that is reached by extending one's counting.

Etymology 1

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Unclear. Schuessler (2007) notes similar forms in Mon-Khmer, though their initials and finals do not match Old Chinese; compare Vietnamese nghìn and Old Mon lṅim (whence Mon လ္ၚီ (ŋìm)), all meaning "thousand". Also compare Proto-Hlai *C-ŋin.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ce1/cinn1 - vernacular;
  • ceng1- literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. thousand
       qiān   several thousand
  2. many; numerous
    山萬水山万水   qiānshānwànshuǐ   many rivers and mountains
  3. (Cantonese) to swindle; to defraud
  4. (Hokkien) fortuitous; coincidental; opportune
Synonyms
  • (coincidental): (qiǎo)
See also
More information Chinese numbers, Normal (小寫 / 小写) ...

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant for the numeral in Mandarin.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (せん) (sen)
  • Korean: 천(千) (cheon)
  • Vietnamese: thiên ()
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽻𐽶𐽺 (sén)
  • Zhuang: cien (thousand)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“swing”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

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Korean

Old Japanese

Vietnamese

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