Pinyin: qiān

thousand

Example sentence

这个手表三千元。

Zhège shǒubiǎo sānqiān yuán.

This watch is three thousand yuan.

What 千 means

(qiān) is a Chinese word meaning “thousand”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 2 (and again in HSK 3), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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