千
qiān HSK2

thousand

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approved by Hsmq · Jul 30, 2026, 01:55 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Jul 30, 2026, 03:20 PM

一 is a distinguishing mark, so 千 isn't a phonosemantic compound. ( 說文新證 p.155-156)

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Derived from 人. 一 was added as a distinguishing mark to represent "thousand".

Components

亻
亻 Sound component

亻 is a component form of 人.

Change in sound
一
一 Distinguishing component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshens.n̥ˤi[ŋ] thousand

說文解字

《說文》：“千，十百也。从十，从人。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.155-156
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)