千 qiān

1. qiān number one thousand
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '千'; Guoyu '千' n 1; Kroll 2015 '千' 1, p. 359; Mathews 1931 '千', p. 124; NCCED '千' 1; Unihan '千')
2. qiān adjective many; numerous; countless
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 千方百計 'by every possible means' (CC-CEDICT '千'; CEDCI '千方百計'; Guoyu '千' adj; Kroll 2015 '千' 1a, p. 359; Mathews 1931 '千', p. 124; NCCED '千' 2; Unihan '千').
3. qiān adverb very
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '千')
4. qiān noun a cheat; swindler
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Cantonese (Unihan '千')
5. qiān proper noun Qian
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '千' n 2)

Contained in

• 成百上千 many; by the hundreds and thousands
• 千里馈粮，士有饥色(千里饋糧，士有飢色) provisions from a thousand li away cannot feed starving soldiers
• 千支万派(千支萬派) a thousand branches and ten thousand schools
• 负笈千里(負笈千里) to carry a case of books a thousand li; to go to great lengths in search of learning
• 千军易得，一将难求(千軍易得，一將難求) Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general.
• 五千 five thousand
• 千瓦 kilowatt
• 千之 do a thousand times
• 千挑万选(千挑萬選) to select very carefully
• 千足虫(千足蟲) millipede
• 成千成万(成千成萬) by the thousands and tens of thousands; untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
• 千岁一时(千歲一時) a one-in-a-thousand-year opportunity
• 秋千(鞦韆) swing; seesaw; trapeze
• 千军万马(千軍萬馬) a huge number of soldiers and horses
• 万水千山只等闲(萬水千山只等閒) thousands of rivers and mountains are barriers slight
• 不远千里(不遠千里) make light of traveling a thousand li; go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
• 差之毫厘，谬以千里(差之毫釐，謬以千里) the slightest difference leads to a huge error; a miss is as good as a mile
• 千里达和多巴哥(千里達和多巴哥) Trinidad and Tobago
• 决胜千里(決勝千里) to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away
• 千真万确(千真萬確) absolutely true; true from many points of view
• 千伏 kilovolt
• 千层纸(千層紙) mica
• 九千 nine thousand
• 千载一合(千載一合) a one in a thousand years occurrence
• 千家万户(千家萬戶) every family
• 千兆 billion; giga-
• 千岁日至(千歲日至) solstice a thousand years ago
• 万千(萬千) myriad; multitudinous; multifarious
• 一字千金 one word worth a thousand in gold; (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect; each word is highly valued
• 彪炳千古 to shine through the ages
• 平方千米 square kilometer
• 千里马(千里馬) a ten thousand li horse; fine steed ; a talented person
• 千姿百态(千姿百態) fantastic oddities of every description
• 千方 veratile
• 成千 thousands
• 一言千金 one word worth a thousand in gold; valuable advice; words of enormous weight
• 千帕 kilopascal (kPa)
• 千里送鹅毛，礼轻人意重(千里送鵝毛，禮輕人意重) goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning
• 好事不出门，恶事传千里(好事不出門，惡事傳千里) good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles
• 在家千日好，出门一时难(在家千日好，出門一時難) at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging
• 转战千里(轉戰千里) fighting everywhere over a thousand miles; constant fighting across the country
• 千经万卷(千經萬卷) a thousand sutras, ten thousand scrolls; the vast Buddhist canon
• 两千年(兩千年) the year 2000; 2000 years
• 千乘之国(千乘之國) a state with a thousand chariots
• 千里驹(千里駒) a thousand-li colt
• 千难万难(千難萬難) extremely difficult

Also contained in

千金要方 、 千夫长 、 千阳县 、 千阳 、 千叶县

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷九十 志第六十六 兵二 Volume 90 Treatises 66: Military 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 484
• 卷一百七十一 志第一百二十四 職官十一 Volume 171 Treatises 124: Offical Posts 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 359
• 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 232
• 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 228
• 卷八十六　志第三十六: 　百官二 Volume 86 Treatises 39: Official Posts 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 185
• 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 170
• 卷一百七十二 志第一百二十五 職官十二 Volume 172 Treatises 125: Offical Posts 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 158
• 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 152
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 128
• 卷十二 志第二 歷上 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Calendar 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 115

Collocations

• 千乘 (千乘) 公車千乘 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 51
• 千人 (千人) 甲士三千人以戍曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 49
• 三千 (三千) 騋牝三千 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧定之方中 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Ding Zhi Fang Zhong — count: 35
• 二千 (二千) 然則二萬二千六百有六旬也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 12
• 车千 (車千) 皆請以車千乘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 11
• 千钟 (千鐘) 授祿千鍾 — Guanzi 管子, 小問第五十一 Chapter 51: Minor Questions — count: 10
• 千世 (千世) 紂千世而一出 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 難勢第四十 Chapter 40: Difficulties with a Position of Power — count: 6
• 千室 (千室) 晉侯賞桓子狄臣千室 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 6
• 卒千 (卒千) 卒千人 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君大匡第十八 Chapter 18: Correcting a Ruler from Making a Grave Error — count: 4
• 数千 (數千) 從數千 — Mozi 墨子, 卷八 明鬼下 Book 8 - On Ghosts III — count: 4