千 (qiān) means Thousand. Below are 19 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这个手机三 千 块钱。
Zhège shǒujī sān qiān kuài qián.
This phone costs three thousand yuan.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 千
学校里有两 千 个学生。
Xuéxiào lǐ yǒu liǎng qiān gè xuésheng.
There are two thousand students at the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 千
费用共计八 千 元。
Fèiyòng gòngjì bāqiān yuán.
The costs come to eight thousand yuan in total.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 共计
你 千 万别忘了带护照。
Nǐ qiānwàn bié wàng le dài hùzhào.
Be sure not to forget your passport.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 千万
路上 千 万要注意安全。
Lù shàng qiānwàn yào zhùyì ānquán.
Do be careful on the way.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 千万
这个礼堂能容纳一 千 人。
Zhège lǐtáng néng róngnà yìqiān rén.
This hall can hold a thousand people.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 容纳
这座山的海拔超过三 千 米。
Zhè zuò shān de hǎibá chāoguò sānqiān mǐ.
This mountain is over three thousand metres above sea level.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 海拔
他 千 方百计想帮上这个忙。
Tā qiān fāng bǎi jì xiǎng bāng shàng zhège máng.
He tried every possible way to help.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 千方百计
这些文物有上 千 年的历史。
Zhèxiē wénwù yǒu shàng qiān nián de lìshǐ.
These relics are over a thousand years old.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 文物
这件事 千 万不能走漏风声。
Zhè jiàn shì qiānwàn bù néng zǒulòu fēngshēng.
On no account must word of this get out.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 走漏
两国的边界线长达三 千 多公里。
Liǎng guó de biānjiè xiàn cháng dá sānqiān duō gōnglǐ.
The border between the two countries runs for more than three thousand kilometres.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 边界
这种导弹的射程超过一 千 公里。
Zhè zhǒng dǎodàn de shèchéng chāoguò yìqiān gōnglǐ.
This missile has a range of over a thousand kilometres.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 导弹
这家医院每天接待上 千 名患者。
Zhè jiā yīyuàn měi tiān jiēdài shàng qiān míng huànzhě.
This hospital receives over a thousand patients a day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 患者
父母 千 方百计供他读完了大学。
Fùmǔ qiān fāng bǎi jì gōng tā dú wán le dàxué.
His parents did everything possible to get him through university.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 千方百计
儒家思想影响了中国两 千 多年。
Rújiā sīxiǎng yǐngxiǎng le Zhōngguó liǎngqiān duō nián.
Confucian thought has influenced China for over two thousand years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 儒家
前面有个岔路口， 千 万别走错了。
Qiánmiàn yǒu ge chà lùkǒu, qiānwàn bié zǒu cuò le.
There is a fork in the road ahead; be sure not to take the wrong one.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 岔
他们从上 千 份简历中筛选出十个人。
Tāmen cóng shàng qiān fèn jiǎnlì zhōng shāixuǎn chū shí ge rén.
They selected ten people out of over a thousand CVs.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 筛选
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From the travel phrasebook
一 千 个多少钱？
Yìqiān gè duōshao qián?
How much for a thousand units?
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
起订量是一 千 个。
Qǐdìngliàng shì yìqiān gè.
The minimum order is 1,000 units.
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
Words that contain 千
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 千
How is 千 used in a sentence?
This page shows 19 sentences using 千 (qiān, "Thousand"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 千 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 千 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 千 an HSK word?
Yes — 千 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 千?
The dictionary page for 千 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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