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千 qiān — “thousand”

How to write and say the Chinese character 千 (qiān), which means thousand — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Numbers & counting.

Stroke order笔顺

千 is written with 3 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

A slanting stroke over 十 (ten) — ten upon ten upon ten makes a thousand.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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