一万一千 (yí wàn yī qiān) — eleven thousand (11,000)

Definition

Numeral meaning 11,000. Built as 一万 (10,000) + 一千 (1,000) — the standard way to say 'eleven thousand' in Chinese.

numeral
eleven thousand (11,000)

Examples

  • 一万一千。
    Zhè ge chéng shì dà yuē yǒu yí wàn yī qiān rén kǒu.
    This city has about 11,000 people.
  • 一万一千。
    Tā měi gè yuè zhèng yí wàn yī qiān kuài qián.
    He earns 11,000 yuan a month.
  • 一万一千。
    Xué xiào lǐ yǒu yí wàn yī qiān míng xué shēng.
    There are 11,000 students in the school.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

一万ten thousand
一yīone万wànten thousand
偏正Modifier + head
一千one thousand
一yīone千qiānthousand
偏正Modifier + head

一万 gives ten thousand, 一千 gives one thousand; together they add up to eleven thousand.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 萬; 万 is its simplified writing.

For 万, the form 萬 was originally a picture of a scorpion, later borrowed for its sound to write 'ten thousand'; the scorpion picture is unrelated to that number.

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An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

Open 一 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
一一yīone, signifying a number
Sound part声符shēngfú
人
人rén千qiān
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

千 pairs 人, whose sound was similar, with 一, a number stroke; the extra line was explained as extension, and a thousand is a number reached by extending counting.

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