せん
Meanings
Numeric
1. 1,000; thousand
阡 and 仟 are used in legal documents
Kanji used
thousand
Pitch accent
Top 2300
Used in vocabulary (70 in total)
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
great depth; bottomless; great height
thousands; several thousand
1000 ri; (a) long distance
four thousand; 4,000
four thousand; 4,000
exceedingly; extremely; very many; indeed
7000; seven thousand
7000; seven thousand
being a match for a thousand; being a mighty warrior (combatant, player)
10,000,000; ten million; extremely large number; myriad
an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae); 1000 ryō (an old Japanese coin)
thousand-fold
1000 sheets (of paper); many pages; book tripe; bible tripe; leaf tripe
1000 pounds; 1000 kan; 1000 yen; 1000 pieces of gold; great weight; pricelessness
thousand-year period
four thousand; 4,000
four thousand; 4,000
division by 1000; one-thousandth
flood of customers; roaring business
flood of customers; roaring business
one thousand days
7000; seven thousand
7000; seven thousand
100,000,000,000; hundred billion; many
thousand times
Senke school of tea ceremony
a large number; all sorts; hundreds and thousands
strength of a thousand men; cloth with the character for "strength" written by a thousand men (soldier's charm)
tremendous number
the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened
great depth; bottomless; great height
striped pattern (textiles, pottery)
julienne (esp. of daikon); long, thin strips
lots of words
many mountains and rivers; a great distance to travel
many mountains and rivers; a great distance to travel
something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success
various forms; various circumstances
an endless variety of forms; multifariousness
bottomless ravine; abyss
an infinite variety; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
being a match for a thousand
striped pattern (textiles, pottery)
great collection (of things); cluster; bunch; bottle gourd
some are wise and some are otherwise; (lit.) one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind
some are wise and some are otherwise; (lit.) one thousand blind; one thousand with their eyes open
captain of a thousand
all sorts of things; all manner of affairs
great collection (of things); cluster; bunch; bottle gourd
So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own
always listen to your parents; always value your parents' advice; (lit.) not even one in a thousand of a parents' opinion or an eggplant flower are in vain
the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; (lit.) one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane
great diversity of form
competent local official
variegated Spanish violet; Yucca Aloifolia
Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)
thinly shredded cabbage
many nights; a thousand nights
Examples (24 in total)
Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
There were about a thousand people.
There are about a thousand students in all.