Illustration: In a Japanese community craft room, volunteers suspend four completed bundles of folded paper cranes from a sturdy rail. Each bundle contains twenty-five long strands of forty cranes, creating a dense mass of individually recognizable folded birds.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

数すう千せん

suusen

several thousand

Example sentences

  1. 数千すうせん人にんが職しょくを失うしなった。

    Thousands of people lost their jobs.

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  2. 空そらに数千すうせんの星ほしを見みることができる。

    We can see thousands of stars in the sky.

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  3. この病気びょうきで数千すうせんの犠牲者ぎせいしゃが出でた。

    Thousands of people became victims of this disease.

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Kanji in 数千

  • 数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば
  • 千thousandOnセンKunち

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