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三千 (sān qiān) — three thousand; 3,000

Definition

numeral
three thousand3,000

Examples

  • 三千。
    Zhè tái diàn nǎo de jià gé shì sān qiān yuán.
    The price of this computer is three thousand yuan.
  • 三千。
    Wǒ men gōng sī yǒu sān qiān duō míng yuán gōng.
    Our company has over three thousand employees.
  • 三千。
    Tā měi gè yuè néng zhuàn sān qiān kuài qián.
    He can earn three thousand kuai every month.

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.

三sānthree
千qiānthousand

三 gives the number three and 千 denotes thousands; together they mean 3,000.

Characters in this word

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

三 is drawn as three parallel strokes, like 一 with one stroke and 二 with two.

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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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