The Chinese Radical: 千


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thousand    千

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
thousand
qiān
Combination of person and one . See as "many persons aligned"
Many people aligned add up to a thousand.
JLPT HSK 5
to insert, stick in, pierce, interfere, interpose
chā
Left: hand , right: 臿 (pestle in mortar [=it is pressed from both sides E, ])
By hand put the pestle into the mortar: by inserting.
JLPT HSK 5
obedient (of a child), well-behaved, clever, lovable
guāi
Inside: thousand , outside: North (Two persons , sit back-to-back because of the north's cold.)
If 1000 persons are sitting back-to-back, they are obedient children.
JLPT HSK 6
boatman's tow-rope, fine, delicate, minute
qiàn, xiān
Left: thread 纟/, right: 1000
Threads, namely 1000, build a tow-rope.
JLPT HSK 6
to change (a location), move, promote
qiān
Left: movement , right: one thousand
(Habits can hardly be discarded) Only by thousand-fold movements you can change.
JLPT no HSK
feel remorse, regret, repent
chàn
Left: feelings , right: thousand
This feeling is thousand-fold: the remorse!
JLPT no HSK
to destroy, to annihilate
jiān
Left: bad, wicked (= bare bone), right: thousand
When there are bare bones in thousands, it is: a destruction.

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