# 千 — Thousand

Frequency rank 487 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 王 (King), less common than 熱 (Heat).

- On’yomi: せん
- Kun’yomi: ち
- Radical: 十 Ten (Kangxi 24)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

The character 千 (thousand) looks like a person with one long arm reaching across — one figure representing a thousand soldiers stretching to the horizon.

In words:

- 千 せん — thousand

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