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  *千* | 千* | *千
thousand
HSK 2
kilogram
HSK 2
ten million / countless / many / one must by all means
HSK 3
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  *韆* | 韆* | *韆
HSK 2
lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
HSK 7-9
thousand miles distant
a thousand years / your birthday (honorific)
lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
millennium
kilometer
thousand jin (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (proverb) / fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it
myriads / hundred billion
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men
HSK 7-9
kilowatt (unit of electric power)
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed
reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
countless changes / constant permutation
HSK 7-9
jack (for lifting weight)
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
(idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar
Chiba prefecture, Japan
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
giga- / (computer networking) gigabits per second; 1000Base-T
the first year of a millennium (esp. the year 2000)
kilopascal (kPa, unit of pressure)
Buddhist grottos
thousand island dressing
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
micrometer screw gauge; micrometer
(idiom) extremely diverse / to vary greatly
kilohertz / kHz
lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence
plethora of things to tackle / multitude of loose ends / very complicated / chaotic
kilobase pair (molecular biology)
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
kilocycle (KC), equals to 1,000 Hz
throughout the ages
after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) / the vicissitudes of life
kilowatt-hour
absolutely true (idiom) / manifold / true from many points of view
(coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand
totally submissive (idiom)
(idiom) to come in many different shapes; to display a great variety of forms
kilobit
extremely difficult
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
clairvoyance
(idiom) (of a woman) bewitching; charming
repeatedly urging / imploring over and over again
a lot of people (literary)
lasagna
Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
sb condemned by history (idiom)
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
kilobyte
kilovolt
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈
kiloton
to select very carefully
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈
Trinidad and Tobago
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
Qianyang County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi
Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general. (idiom)
kilocalorie (Kcal)
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all
Qianyang County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi
the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
Qianshan district of Anshan city 鞍山市, Liaoning
kilohertz
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
constantly changing, ever-varying (idiom)
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
linked in countless ways
Chiba (Japanese surname and place name)
kilojoule
millipede
lit. a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom) / fig. (at the) critical; perilous (moment)
HSK 7-9
(archaic) a state with a thousand chariots (to fight a war) – a powerful state
(idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck.
Trinidad and Tobago (Tw)


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