仟 qiān one thousand Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 千 represents the sound. Components 亻 亻 Meaning component rén person 亻 is a component form of 人. 千 千 Sound component qiān thousand Character Evolution Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangsn̥ʰiːn Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang Historical images Academia Sinica