几千 (幾千)
jǐ qiān
Pinyin

Definition

几千 (幾千)
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jǐ qiān
  1. several thousand

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

千
qiān
  1. 1 thousand
千万
qiān wàn
  1. 1 ten million
  2. 2 countless
  3. 3 many
  4. 4 one must by all means
千亿
qiān yì
  1. 1 myriads
  2. 2 hundred billion
千千万万
qiān qiān wàn wàn
  1. 1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
  2. 2 innumerable
  3. 3 thousands upon thousands
千古
qiān gǔ
  1. 1 for all eternity
  2. 2 throughout all ages

Idioms (20)

一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一掷千金
yī zhì qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly
  2. 2 extravagant
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive

Sample Sentences

北冥有鱼，其名为鲲。鲲之大，不知其几千里也；化而为鸟，其名为鹏。鹏之背，不知其几千里也；怒而飞，其翼若垂天之云。是鸟也，海运则将徙于南冥。南冥者，天池也。
Běimíng yǒu yú ，qí míng wèi kūn 。kūn zhī dà ，bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě ；huà ér wèi niǎo ，qí míng wèi péng 。péng zhī bèi ，bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě ；nù ér fēi ，qí yì ruò chuítiān zhī yún 。shì niǎo yě ，hǎi yùn zé jiāng xǐ yú Nánmíng 。Nánmíng zhě ，tiānchí yě 。
In the Northern Ocean there is a fish, the name of which is Kun - I do not know how many li in size. It changes into a bird with the name of Peng, the back of which is (also) - I do not know how many li in extent. When this bird rouses itself and flies, its wings are like clouds all round the sky. When the sea is moved (so as to bear it along), it prepares to remove to the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean is the Pool of Heaven.
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可不是嘛，高考重视文化课业成绩，学校就拼命研究考题，拼命让学生做题，我们高考前的模拟考卷就有几千套，体育课，音乐课统统改成模拟考试了。
kěbushì ma ，gāokǎo zhòngshì wénhuà kèyè chéngjì ，xuéxiào jiù pīnmìng yánjiū kǎotí ，pīnmìng ràng xuésheng zuò tí ，wǒmen gāokǎo qián de mónǐ kǎojuǎn jiù yǒu jǐ qiān tào ，tǐyùkè ，yīnyuèkè tǒngtǒng gǎichéng mónǐ kǎoshì le 。
That's so true, the college entrance exams put a lot of emphasis on the grade in the liberal arts, while schools are eager to research exam questions. So they make students go over lots of past questions. Before our college entrance exams we have over a thousand mock exams, so physical education and music class all made way for mock examinations.
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过奖过奖啦，茶道本来就该与人分享才有意义，这茶文化里可蕴含了我们老祖宗几千年的智慧和修养啊。
guòjiǎng guòjiǎng la ，chádào běnlái jiù gāi yǔ rén fēnxiǎng cái yǒu yìyì ，zhè chá wénhuà lǐ kě yùnhán le wǒmen lǎo zǔzōng jǐ qiān nián de zhìhuì hé xiūyǎng ā 。
You're too kind, the art of tea is only meaningful when sharing with people. Tea culture holds several thousand years of the wisdom and cultivation of our forebearers.
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这个我不行，为了几千块钱，搞得那么累。
zhè ge wǒ bùxíng ，wèile jǐ qiān kuài qián ，gǎo de nàme lèi 。
I can't do that, to tire myself out for just a few thousand yuan.
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电视广告一秒就要几千块。我们是小公司，做不起。
diànshì guǎnggào yī miǎo jiù yào jǐ qiān kuài 。wǒmen shì xiǎo gōngsī ，zuòbùqǐ 。
TV ads cost thousands of kuai per second. We're a small company; we can't afford it.
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大的小的，好的坏的，几千家公司。生意难做啊！
dà de xiǎo de ，hǎo de huài de ，jǐ qiān jiā gōngsī 。shēngyi nán zuò a ！
There are thousands of companies: big and small, good and bad. It's really difficult to do business!
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他们认为中国几千年来使用的文言文式样的书面表达方式不利于思想文化传播。所以为了便于在社会大众中宣传新思想，他们提倡使用更接近日常会话的白话文进行写作和交流。《新青年》就是新文化运动的主战场。
tāmen rènwéi Zhōngguó jǐ qiān nián lái shǐyòng de wényánwén shìyàng de shūmiàn biǎodá fāngshì bù lìyú sīxiǎng wénhuà chuánbō 。suǒyǐ wèile biànyú zài shèhuì dàzhòng zhōng xuānchuán xīn sīxiǎng ，tāmen tíchàng shǐyòng gèng jiējìn rìcháng huìhuà de báihuàwén jìnxíng xiězuò hé jiāoliú 。 xīnqīngnián 》jiùshì xīnwénhuàyùndòng de zhǔ zhànchǎng 。
They believed that the system of only using classical Chinese in writing, which had been in use for thousands of years, wasn't beneficial to the dissemination of thought and culture. So, in order to make this dissemination more convenient for the masses, they advocated the use of current and daily-use language in writing and communication. The literary journal, "New Youth" was the New Culture Movement's primary battlefield.
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大概几千万年以前吧！世上总共有十个太阳。
dàgài jǐ qiān wàn nián yǐqián ba ！shìshàng zǒnggòng yǒu shí ge tàiyáng 。
Approximately tens of millions of years ago! There were ten suns in the world.
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别人都送，咱不送的话，医生肯定态度不一样。我们大老远地跑来这里看病也不容易，不要因为这几千块做不好手术。
biérén dōu sòng ，zán bú sòng dehuà ，yīshēng kěndìng tàidu bù yīyàng 。wǒmen dàlǎoyuǎn de pǎolái zhèlǐ kànbìng yě bù róngyì ，bù yào yīnwèi zhè jǐqiān kuài zuòbuhǎo shǒushù 。
Other people give one. If we don't, the doctor will definitely feel differently about us. It wasn't easy coming from so far away to have the surgery. Let's not let it go poorly over just a few thousand kuai.
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今年我要回老家，机票就要几千块。
jīnnián wǒ yào huí lǎojiā ，jīpiào jiù yào jǐ qiān kuài 。
This year, I'll go back to my hometown. The plane ticket is only a few thousand kuai.
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