Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen table, a child has emptied a small coin purse and arranged ten hundred-yen coins into two tidy rows of five. Every coin shows its familiar cherry-blossom face, with inscriptions outside the visible face detail. The coins are equal in size and remain individually visible.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

千せん円えん

sen'en

one thousand yen

Example sentences

  1. １０００円えんで十分じゅうぶんですか。

    Is one thousand yen enough?

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  2. 千円せんえんしか持もってません。

    I have no more than one thousand yen.

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  3. 私わたしはいとこから１０００円えん借かりた。

    I borrowed 1,000 yen from my cousin.

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Kanji in 千円

  • 千thousandOnセンKunち
  • 円circle; yenOnエンKunまるい・まる・まど

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