![]() | Pinyin | qiān (first tone) |
English | 1,000; one thousand | |
Rather like 'chyenn' as 'kitchen' |
The character is probably derived from the combination of ten and person indicating 'ten lifetimes'. It would seem that the ancient Chinese were extremely long-lived.
èr | qiān | sān | bǎi | sì | shí | |
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two | thousand | three | hundreds | four | tens | = 2340 |
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