Keyword
thousand
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
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KankenLevel 10
Heisig40
Readings
せん
(52%)
(42%)
ぜん
(5%)
Composed of
slash left
ten
Mnemonic

An extra stroke on the top, and a ten becomes a thousand! Why? Well, three strokes, three zeroes!

Used in kanji (11 in total)
hand
heavy
tongue
droop
Used in vocabulary (322 in total)
1,000; thousand
many thousands
thousands; several thousand
Examples (91 in total)
There were about a thousand people.
As many as a thousand people were there.
There are about a thousand students in all.
There are about 1000 students at our high school.
They fly about 35,000 km in eight months.
This hall holds two thousand people.
That restaurant prepares two thousand meals every day.
She owns two thousand books.
She has two thousand books.
She has about 2,000 books.
The trip will cost anywhere between $1,000 and $2,000.
The figures in this table are shown in thousands.
Thousands of people lost their jobs.
We can see thousands of stars in the sky.
This book costs 3,000 yen.
That's 3000 yen altogether.
He exists on 3,000 yen a day.
Thousands of people became victims of this disease.
Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the lake.
Thousands of people were there.
Thousands of people visited the city.
Thousands of stars shone in the heavens.
Thousands of spectators got very excited.
Thousands of people gathered there.
Thousands of people wanted to know the answer.
Thousands of foreigners visit Japan every year.
Japan has thousands of islands.
The cost will run into thousands of dollars.
I am a citizen of Chiba, but work in Tokyo.
This is two thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
This hotel can accommodate over 1,000 guests.
"How much did it cost?" "It cost me a thousand yen."
These records are 2,000 yen each.
You can't buy it under 1,000 yen.
I have no more than one thousand yen.
Is one thousand yen enough?
He paid 1,000 yen for this book.
He has no more than 1,000 yen.
He sold me the book for one thousand yen.
Mother gives my sister two thousand yen every month.
I paid two thousand yen for the book.
I was robbed of no more than 1,000 yen.
I gave them one thousand yen each.
I have only five thousand yen.
Five thousand yen is enough to buy this dictionary.
The factory produces thousands of bottles every month.
The diamond was valued at 5,000 dollars.
Thousands of people died of hunger.
Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money.
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
Gangsters robbed a bank of thousands of dollars.
The plane climbed to 4,000 feet.
A thousand yen discount is a pretty great deal, no?
The world population is expanding at the rate of nearly 90 million people a year.
The expressway was congested with thousands of cars.
Kanako commutes from Chiba to Tokyo.
Is it about ten million yen?
Tokyo has a population of over ten million.
He wasn't about to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime chance.
We estimate the damage at one thousand dollars.
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
Today is 23rd November 2016.
The sum came to 3,000 yen.
That is a large force with 5,000 soldiers.
He took out a 1,000-yen note from his wallet.
This is five thousand yen in the Japanese Yen.
The price was only three thousand yen, or about thirty dollars.
I have no more than three thousand yen.
Many animals that lived thousands of years ago are now extinct.
April 1st, 2013 is a Monday.
She won ten million yen in the lottery.
The light travels at about 186,000 miles a second.
The number of the people working in this city will be more than one thousand by the end of this month.
The mountain is 2000 meters above sea level.
True friendship is priceless.
Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
His debts amounted to a thousand dollars.
Thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every day.
Ken was fined 7,000 yen for speeding.
Each person paid $7,000.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
The distance from the sun to the earth is about 93 million miles.
We paid an account of 1000 dollars.
There are 2,000 students in the school.
Net-profit comes to 10 million dollars every year.
They fined him 5,000 yen for illegal parking.
Chiba Prefecture's capital is Chiba City.
A cubic meter corresponds to 1000 liters.
It is a great pity that you don't know it.
This hall is capable of holding 2,000 people.
General Motors laid off 76,000 workers.