qiān in a sentence

Thousand

Full dictionary entry HSK 2 4 sentences

千 (qiān) means Thousand. Below are 4 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 块钱。

Zhège shǒujī sān qiān kuài qián.

This phone costs three thousand yuan.

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学校里有两 个学生。

Xuéxiào lǐ yǒu liǎng qiān gè xuésheng.

There are two thousand students at the school.

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From the travel phrasebook

个多少钱?

Yìqiān gè duōshao qián?

How much for a thousand units?

Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing

起订量是一 个。

Qǐdìngliàng shì yìqiān gè.

The minimum order is 1,000 units.

Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing

Questions about 千

How is 千 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 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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