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
insert
diverge
kilometer
???
kilogram
???
kilolitre
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.