Kanji: 千

    • Meaning : thousand
    • ON reading : セン
    • KUN reading :
    • Nanori : かず,ゆき
    • Stroke count : 3
    • Frequency of use ranking : 195
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • より - せんじょうのつつみもありのいっけつより - A little leak will sink a great ship
  • - せんりもいちり - Love despises distance
  • - ちしゃもせんりょにいっしつ - Even Homer sometimes nods
  • - めあきせんにんめくらせんにん - Some are wise and some are otherwise
  • - いっきとうせん - being a match for a thousand/being a mighty warrior (combatant, player)
  • - いちじせんきん - word of great value
  • - いっこくせんきん - every moment is precious/time is money/precious time
  • - いっせん - 1,000/one thousand
  • - いちぼうせんり - sweeping view of the eye/boundless expanse
  • - いっしゃせんり - one swift effort/rush through one's work/fast-talking, writing, etc.
  • - なんぜん - many thousands
  • - うみせんやません - sly old dog/old fox
  • - いくせん - thousands
  • - ひゃくせんまん - multitudinousness
  • のつわもの | - いっきとうせんのつわもの - a great warrior
  • - せんぼんやり | センボンヤリ - Leibnitz daisy (Leibnitzia anandria)
  • | - ねざさ - dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)
  • - さんぜんせかい - the whole world/the universe
  • - ちしお - soaking in dye innumerable times
  • - さんぜん - 3000 | many
  • に - ちよにやちよに - for millennia and millennia/for years and years/forever and ever
  • - はちまんしせん - 84000 | many
  • - しょうしせんばん - highly ridiculous/quite absurd
  • - はっせん | やち - 8000 | many
  • - ちとせどり - crane (said to live for 1,000 years)
  • - すうせん - thousands
  • - せん | ち - 1,000/thousand
  • - せんえんさつ - 1,000 Yen bill
  • - せんこ - all ages/great antiquity/eternity
  • - せんみつや - broker/land agent/great liar/unreliable person
  • - せんしゅうらく - concluding festivities/final day of a sumo tournament/concluding program/concluding programme
  • - せんにんりき - strength of a thousand men
  • り | り - せんぎり - small pieces or strips of vegetables
  • - せんそつちょう - captain of a thousand
  • - ちどりあし - tottering steps/drunken staggering
  • | - ちとせ | せんねん - millennium/one thousand years
  • - せんばい - thousand-fold
  • - せんぺんばんか - innumerable changes/infinite variety
  • - せんまん - 10,000,000/ten million/myriad
  • - せんや - many nights
  • - せんりょ - much thought
  • - せんりょうやくしゃ - star (actor)/prima donna/leading figure
  • | 1000 - せんえん - 1000 yen
  • - せんげんばんご - many words
  • - せんざいいちぐう - once in a lifetime (opportunity)/(a golden opportunity that may) happen only once in a thousand years
  • - せんしゅう - thousand years/many years
  • - せんにんばり - 1000-stitch belt (soldier's charm)
  • - せんごくぶね - large junk
  • - ちぐさ - great variety of flowering plants
  • | - ちどり | チドリ - plover
  • - せんにち - one thousand days
  • - せんぱばんぱ - many waves/onrushing waves
  • - せんぶんりつ - permillage/rate per thousand
  • - せんばん | ちよろず - exceedingly/very many/very much/indeed/a great many
  • | | - ちぎ - ornamental crossed rafter ends on shrine gables
  • - せんりがん - clairvoyance
  • - せんりょうばこ - box of 1000 ryou
  • - せんばづる - (string of) many (traditionally 1000) paper cranes
  • - せんぐんばんば - (having experienced) many battles
  • - せんざい - thousand years/long time/millennium/perpetuity
  • - せんしばんこう - deep meditation/mature consideration
  • - せんしんばんく - many hardships
  • - せんなり - great collection (of things)
  • る - ちぎる - to cut up fine/to pick (fruit)
  • - ちよがみ - gaily colored paper/gaily coloured paper
  • - ちしま - Kurile Islands
  • - せんねんき - millennium
  • - せんぶん - division by 1000/one-thousandth
  • し - せんまいどおし - awl/eyeleteer
  • - せんまんむりょう - innumerable/unfathomable/unutterable
  • - せんり - 1000 ri/(a) long distance
  • - せんりょう - 1000 ryou (an old Japanese coin) | Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae)
  • - はじろこちどり | ハジロコチドリ - ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
  • - せんいちや - Thousand and One Nights
  • - せんおく - 100,000,000,000/hundred billion/(obs) hundred milliard (British) | many
  • - せんさばんべつ | せんさまんべつ - an infinite variety of/multifarious/being extremely varied and wide-ranging
  • 姿 - せんしばんたい - endless variety
  • - せんじょうばんたい - various forms/various circumstances
  • | - せんじん | ちひろ - great depth (lit: thousand fathoms)/bottomless | great height
  • - せんぎりだいこん - dried radish strips
  • - せんたいばんよう - great diversity of form
  • り | り | り - せんずり | せんづり - masturbation (male)
  • - せんねんかん - thousand-year period
  • - せんぱん - variety
  • - せんぺん - many volumes
  • - せんばんちょうじゃ - multimillionaire/billionaire
  • - ちばけん - Chiba prefecture (Kantou area)
  • - せんりょのいっしつ - the mistake of a wise man
  • - せんじんのたに - bottomless ravine
  • - いしちどり | イシチドリ - stone curlew/thick-knee (Burhinus oedicnemus)
  • - ふえこちどり | フエコチドリ - piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
  • - こちどり | コチドリ - little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)
  • - ちば - Chiba (city)
  • ず - せんきんのきゅうはいっこのえきにあらず - an expensive fur coat will not be made with a single fox alone/to rule a country requires many great men
  • 寿 - せんじゅらん - variegated Spanish violet/Yucca Aloifolia
  • く - あくじせんりをいく - bad news travels fast
  • - やちぐさ - variety of plants/various herbs
  • - やちよ - eternity/thousands of years
  • いちぎる | る - くいちぎる - to bite off
  • - ちのしょうほう - Chino Shoho (Japanese religious group founded by Chino Yuuko)
  • - せんざいふま - still remaining after a thousand years/immortal
  • - ばんせん - tremendous number
  • - よしつねせんぼんざくら - Yoshitsune Senbonzakura (kabuki play)
  • - いそちどり - beach plover
  • - いってきせんきん - being lavish with one's money/spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat
  • - うかつせんばん - very careless/quite thoughtless
  • - せんしょばんたん - all sorts of things/all manner of affairs
  • る - いっかくせんきんをゆめみる - to dream of making a fortune at one stroke
  • - うらせんけ - Urasenke school of tea ceremony
  • - つるはせんねんかめはまんねん - Cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years
  • - いちじつせんしゅう | いちにちせんしゅう - (waiting) impatiently/(spending) many a weary day/each moment seeming like an eternity
  • - せんせん | ちぢ - thousands/great number of/variety
  • - せんど | ちたび - thousand times
  • | - せんだい | ちよ - thousand years | very long period/forever
  • | - はっせんねん | やちとせ - 8000 years/thousands of years/eternity
  • - せんかくばんらい | せんきゃくばんらい - flood of customers/(doing) a roaring business
  • | - いっかくせんきん - getting rich quick
  • | - せんきん - 1000 pounds/1000 kan/1000 yen/1000 pieces of gold/great weight/pricelessness
  • | - せんぺんいちりつ - humdrum/lack of variety/monotony/stereotypical
  • - どきょうせんりょう - being bold/daring/plucky/having a lot of guts/being quite nerveless
  • に | 々に - ちぢに - in pieces
  • れる - ちぎれる - to be torn off/to be torn to pieces
  • - ちよよろずよ - for ever and ever/(through) eternity/countless ages/till the end of time
  • - ひきょうせんばん - very mean (sneaky)/extremely unsportsmanlike
  • - むねんせんばん - being really disappointed/feeling utterly mortified/being deeply vexed
  • - あたいせんきん - priceless/invaluable
  • - ひゃくせん | ももち - a large number/all sorts/hundreds and thousands
  • - ぶれいせんばん - extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
  • - じくろせんり - a large number of ships sailing in a long chain-like formation
  • - しっけいせんばん - extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
  • - しつれいせんばん - extremely rude (impertinent, impolite)
  • - しんがいせんばん - being totally upset (by)/being completely nonplused (by)/being mortified (at)/feeling aggrieved (at)/finding (it) highly regrettable
  • - せんしゅばんよう - an infinite variety/multifarious/being extremely varied and wide-ranging
  • - せんねんいちじつ - without intermission for many years/with constancy of purpose for many years/in the same old rut for years on end
  • - せんりどうふう - a country being in a state of universal peace/the world being peaceful and uneventful
  • - とうとつせんばん - very sudden/very abrupt
  • - めもとせんりょう - beautiful eyes/bright-eyed/there being a sublime charm about one's eyes
  • - せんざんばんすい | せんさんばんすい - many mountains and rivers/a great distance to travel
  • | - ふとどきせんばん - very rude (insolent)/extremely reprehensible/outrageous
  • - せんこばんこ - remote antiquity/ancient times/the remote past
  • - せんたいばんじょう - an endless variety of forms/multifariousness
  • - せんこふま - permanence/immortality/eternity
  • - せんにんせんしょく - So many people, so many minds/Everyone has his own ideas and tastes/It takes all sorts to make a world/To each his (her) own
  • - せんりょいっとく | せんりょのいっとく - Even a fool may sometimes come up with a good idea
  • - せんまいた - type of rice terrace/upland
  • - えがおせんりょう - beautiful smile/there being a great charm about one's smile
  • - せんこふえき - eternally unchanging
  • - いかんせんばん - highly regrettable/utterly deplorable
  • - よくやせんり - vast expansion of fertile land
  • - せんりょいっしつ | せんりょのいっしつ - mere slip by someone who is usually very careful/simple mistake by a wise person/point overlooked by a cautious person
  • - いちにんとうせん | いちにんとうぜん - being a match for a thousand
  • - いっしょうせんきん - A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold/enchanting smile of a glamorous woman
  • - あくじせんり - bad news traveling fast/ill news spreading like wildfire
  • - いちだくせんきん - one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold/a promise should be kept at all cost
  • - きかいせんばん | きっかいせんばん - very strange (mysterious, weird)/bizarre/monstrous/outrageous
  • - ふらちせんばん - very insolent/extremely audacious/reprehensible
  • - めいわくせんばん - great nuisance/extremely annoying/quite embarrassing
  • - せんこふめつ - everlasting/unchangeable/immortal
  • る - ぶっちぎる - to win (a race) by a wide margin | to slash though something/to tear (off)
  • り | - ぶっちぎり - winning (a race) by a wide margin
  • - はりせんぼん | ハリセンボン - porcupinefish/balloonfish
  • - よんせん - four thousand
  • - りょうにせんせき - competent local official
  • る - あくじせんりをはしる - bad news travels quickly
  • - はまちどり - plover
  • - せんぶんひ - rate per thousand
  • - せんにちこう - globe amaranth
  • り - せんまいばり - multilayered/cheeky
  • - ちどりごうし - hound's-tooth check
  • - つばめちどり - small Indian pratincole (bird) (Glareola lactea)/large Indian pratincole (Glareola maldivarus)
  • - せんじゅかんのん - thousand-armed Goddess of Mercy
  • り | り - せんなり - cluster/bunch
  • - せんぶり | センブリ - Japanese green gentian (Swertia japonica) | alderfly (esp. species Sialis japonica)/alder fly
  • け - ちどりがけ - cross-stitch
  • - ちぎれぐも - scattered clouds
  • - せんにちて - potentially endless repetition of moves
  • - せんなりぴょうたん - bottle gourd/ensign bearing cluster of gourds
  • - せんけ - Senke school of tea ceremony
  • - せんしばんこう - multitude of colors/multitude of colours
  • | - せんろっぽん | せろっぽう - julienne (esp. of daikon)/long, thin strips
  • - せんにちそう - globe amaranth
  • - せんじゃふだ - slips of paper posted on shrine pillars by pilgrims
  • - ちしまれっとう - Kurile Islands
  • - ちとせあめ - red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
  • - しふくせんねん - millennium
  • - いくせんというひと - thousands of people
  • - せんしゅうらくのひ - closing day of a show
  • - せんひめ - Princess Sen
  • - せんきゅうひゃくねんだい - the 1900s
  • - せんねんき - millennium
  • | け - せんまいずけ - pickled sliced radishes
  • - ちよじょ - name of a haiku poetess
  • - ももちどり - all sorts of birds/hundreds (and thousands) of birds | plover | Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone)/Japanese nightingale
  • - せんじんのたに - abysmal valley