Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Thousand

Mnemonic

This kanji is the same as the radical you learned, so it means thousand.

Readings

On’yomi

せん

Kun’yomi

ち

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Remember the thousand people going down the slide on a cross in the radical 千? Turns out each one of them was carrying a thousand cents (せん). Go ahead and try to calculate what a thousand times a thousand cents would come out to. It's quite a lot, actually.

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