千年

Chinese
thousand year
simp. and trad.
(千年)		 千 年

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 千 年
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 蒼先切 奴顚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɛn/ /nɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰɛn/ /nɛn/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰen/ /nen/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰien/ /nien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰien/ /nien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiān nián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 cin1 nin4

Noun

千年

  1. thousand years; millennium; (figurative) a very long time
    紙壽千年。／纸寿千年。  ―  Zhǐ shòu qiānnián.  ―  Xuan paper has a shelf life of one thousand years.

Synonyms
  • 千春 (qiānchūn) (literary)

Derived terms

See also

Japanese
Kanji in this term
千 年
せん
Grade: 1		 ねん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) せ​んねん [séꜜǹnèǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [sẽ̞nːẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

千(せん)年(ねん) • (sennen) ←せんねん (sennen)?

  1. a millennium; a thousand years

Synonyms

See also

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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