千
qiān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number a thousand, which always needs a number in front of it, even one. 一千 is 1,000 and 两千 2,000; before it, 两 is more usual than 二. Bigger numbers run from large to small: 四千八百 is 4,800, and a missing hundred is filled with 零 (一千零五 = 1,005).
Số nghìn (ngàn); khi đếm luôn phải có số đứng trước, kể cả số một. 一千 là 1.000, 两千 là 2.000 (trước chữ này thường dùng 两 hơn 二). Số lớn đọc từ hàng cao xuống: 四千八百 là 4.800; thiếu hàng trăm thì chèn 零: 一千零五 (1.005).
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “千” mean?
The number a thousand, which always needs a number in front of it, even one. 一千 is 1,000 and 两千 2,000; before it, 两 is more usual than 二. Bigger numbers run from large to small: 四千八百 is 4,800, and a missing hundred is filled with 零 (一千零五 = 1,005).
Is “千” formal or informal?
千 is generally neutral.