Meanings
Numeric
1. 1,000; thousand
阡 and 仟 are used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
great depth; bottomless; great height
a large number; all sorts; hundreds and thousands
countless number; extremely large number
Kurile Islands
thousand years; very long period; forever
great variety of flowering plants; light greenish-blue; various
8000; eight thousand; many
thousand times
many layers; many piles
Siege of Chihaya (Genkō War; 1333)
many nights; a thousand nights
soaking in dye innumerable times
Examples (24 in total)
Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
There were about a thousand people.
There are about a thousand students in all.