Kana: せん

thousand

Example sentence

この時計は三千円です。

このとけいはさんぜんえんです。

This watch is three thousand yen.

What 千 means

(せん) is a Japanese word meaning “thousand”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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