Illustration: At a demonstration table in a Japanese primary school, two children finish lining up three transparent bead-counting frames. Each frame contains ten square layers, each layer holding ten rows of ten small beads, making one thousand beads per frame.

JLPT N5numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

三さん千ぜん

sanzen

three thousand

Example sentences

  1. この本ほんは三千さんぜん円えんする。

    This book costs 3,000 yen.

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  2. 新あたらしいＣＤに３０００円使えんつかった。

    I spent 3,000 yen on a new CD.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. トムは本ほんを3000冊持さつもっている。

    Tom has three thousand books.

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Kanji in 三千

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ
  • 千thousandOnセンKunち

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