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千 — thousand

Pinyin
qiān
Strokes
3
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 千: 3 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

千 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 千 in the HSK syllabus: 10

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 千qiānthousandHSK 1
  2. 千克qiānkèkilogramHSK 4
  3. 千万qiānwànten million; countless; many; one must by all meansHSK 4
  4. 成千上万chéngqiān-shàngwànby the thousands and tens of thousandsHSK 6
  5. 千家万户qiānjiā-wànhùevery familyHSK 6
  6. 千变万化qiānbiàn-wànhuàcountless changes; constant permutationHSK 7–9
  7. 千方百计qiānfāng-bǎijìlit. thousand ways, a hundred plans; by every possible meansHSK 7–9
  8. 千军万马qiānjūn-wànmǎmagnificent army with thousands of men and horses; impressive display of manpowerHSK 7–9
  9. 千钧一发qiānjūn-yífàa thousand pounds hangs by a threadHSK 7–9
  10. 千姿百态qiānzī-bǎitàito come in many different shapes; to display a great variety of formsHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.