Illustration: At a family kitchen table, a grandmother helps a child flatten a crumpled older-series Japanese thousand-yen banknote retrieved from a trouser pocket.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

千せん円えん札さつ

sen'ensatsu

one-thousand-yen bill

Example sentences

  1. この千円札せんえんさつをくずしてくれませんか。

    Can you break this thousand-yen bill?

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  2. 彼かれは千円札せんえんさつを財布さいふから取とり出だした。

    He took out a 1,000-yen note from his wallet.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 千円札せんえんさつくずれますか。

    Can you break a 1000 yen bill?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 千円札

  • 千thousandOnセンKunち
  • 円circle; yenOnエンKunまるい・まる・まど
  • 札tag; paper moneyOnサツKunふだ

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