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七千 (qī qiān) — seven thousand

Definition

numeral
seven thousand

Examples

  • 七千。
    Zhè ge tú shū guǎn cáng shū dà yuē qī qiān cè.
    This library has about seven thousand volumes.
  • 七千。
    Qù nián gōng sī yíng lì chāo guò le qī qiān wàn yuán.
    Last year the company's profit exceeded seven thousand yuan.
  • 七千。
    Bào míng cān jiā zhè cì bǐ sài de rén yǒu qī qiān duō míng.
    Over seven thousand people signed up for this competition.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

七qīseven
千qiānthousand

“七” (seven) and “千” (thousand) combine to state the number 7,000.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 七 comes from two crossing lines: the top line runs left to right, and the next line goes down and across.

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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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