三千

sānqiān

number #8,771

Meanings

1 three thousand
2 (figuratively) a great many

Characters

Examples

这栋房子要三千万。

Zhè dòng fángzi yào sānqiānwàn.

This house costs thirty million.

白发三千丈。

Báifà sānqiān zhàng.

White hair three thousand zhang long. (Li Bai poem, expressing deep sorrow)

三千多名学生参加了考试。

Sānqiān duō míng xuéshēng cānjiā le kǎoshì.

More than three thousand students took the exam.

Tips

culture

三千 often appears in classical Chinese as a literary exaggeration meaning 'countless': 弱水三千 (ruòshuǐ sānqiān) = 'three thousand li of weak water,' meaning many choices but I choose only one.

Stroke Order

三 sān

千 qiān