千 Thousand

Radical Combination

• 千

  Thousand

Meaning

Primary

Thousand

Mnemonic

This kanji looks like and means the same thing as the radical, which makes it particularly easy to remember.

Hints

As long as you know the radical thousand then you know the kanji thousand as well!

Readings

On’yomi

せん

Kun’yomi

ち

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Remember the thousand people going down the slide on a cross in the radical 千? Turns out each one of them was carrying a thousand cents (せん). Go ahead and try to calculate what a thousand times a thousand cents would come out to. It's quite a lot, actually.

Hints

Problem is, as they all tumble down the slide the change falls out of their pockets, so there's a thousand times a thousand cents scattered all over on the floor under the slide.