thousand
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
ああ、それと、千円までにしてね。
Aa, sore to, sen'en made ni shite ne.
Oh, and don't spend more than a thousand yen, okay?
もちろん！このお弁当二つと飲み物二つで、だいたい千百円ですね。
Mochiron! Kono obentou futatsu to nomimono futatsu de, daitai sen hyaku-en desu ne.
Of course! With these two bentos and two drinks, that's about eleven hundred yen.
お会計、二千百円になります。
Okaikei, nisen hyaku en ni narimasu.
All set. That'll be two thousand one hundred yen.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-09-07 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0