Illustration: In a Japanese primary school mathematics room, a child completes a transparent counting frame containing one thousand small beads. Each square layer holds ten straight rows of ten beads, and the frame supports exactly ten layers.

JLPT N5numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

一いっ千せん

issen

one thousand

千 alone is usually read せん. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

１千せん万円まんえんあればその計画けいかくには十分じゅうぶんだろう。
Ten million yen will be ample for the project.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
東京とうきょうの人口じんこうは一千いっせん万人以上まんにんいじょうだ。
Tokyo has a population of over ten million.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれの借金しゃっきんは１千せんドルに達たっした。
His debts amounted to a thousand dollars.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 一千

一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
千thousandOnセンKunち

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