► 名詞
千 [(1)せん] meaning: thousand rank: 1
☆ 千年 ⇨ One thousand years (☛ “One thousand” is usually just 千, not 一千)
More examples:
- ビール一杯が千円なんてぼったくってる ⇨ ¥1K for a glass of beer is a rip-off
- 彼は一攫千金を夢見ている ⇨ He is dreaming about hitting a jackpot
- 年俸一千万円 ⇨ Annual salary ¥10 million
- 募金は一千万円を目標にしている ⇨ The fundraising is targeting 10 million yens
- 入場料は大人は一人千円だ ⇨ The admission for an adult is ¥1000
- 総計五億三千万円なり ⇨ The grand total comes to ¥530 million
- 店の人が5万円を4万5千円に負けてくれた ⇨ The store clerk discounted the price from ¥50K to ¥45K for me
- 恐竜は六千万年程前に滅びた ⇨ Dinosaur died out around 60 million years ago
- この番組の視聴者数は一千万人を越えた ⇨ The viewership of the program has surpassed 10 million
- その会社には五千人の従業員がいる ⇨ The company has 5,000 employees
- 仏教は千五百年程前に日本に伝来した ⇨ Buddhism was introduced to Japan about 15 hundred years ago
- 警察は首脳会談の警備に千人を動員した ⇨ The police mobilized one thousand officers for the summit meeting security
- 千思万考したものの結論が出せない ⇨ I’ve thought about ten thousand times and still cannot reach a conclusion
- 会社の負債は一千億円に膨れ上がった ⇨ The company’s debt has ballooned to ¥1 billion
- 収容人員千人 ⇨ Capacity one thousand people