一千五

yìqiānwǔ

number #33,872

Meanings

1 one thousand five hundred (1,500)
2 fifteen hundred

Characters

five (here = five hundred)

Examples

这件衣服一千五。

Zhè jiàn yīfu yìqiānwǔ.

This piece of clothing costs 1,500.

我每个月房租一千五百块。

Wǒ měi gè yuè fángzū yìqiān wǔbǎi kuài.

My monthly rent is 1,500 yuan.

他借了我一千五。

Tā jiè le wǒ yìqiānwǔ.

He borrowed 1,500 from me.

Tips

grammar

Colloquial shorthand for 一千五百 (1,500). Chinese commonly drops the trailing 百 in spoken numbers when context is clear: 一千五 = 1,500, not 1,005. To say 'one thousand and five' you would need 一千零五.

Stroke Order

一 yī

千 qiān

五 wǔ