Romanisation: cheon

thousand

Example sentence

이 펜은 천 원이에요.

I peneun cheon wonieyo.

This pen is one thousand won.

What 천 means

(cheon) is a Korean 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 Korean.

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