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-<WL>千 [qiān] (数词) thousand (十百为千, ‘1,000’; 千万 ‘ten million’); many (千百万 ‘a great many’); (=阡); (姓)
+<WL>千 [qiān] (数词) thousand, 1,000 (千万 ‘ten million’); numerous/many (千百万)@@; (HDZ:) (数词) 十百为千; 多 (千方百计, 成千上万, 千里之行); 阡; (姓)
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-The character 千(􀘙) has 亻/人(􁕎) rén ‘person’ (phonetic) with 一 yī ‘one’ superimposed. Possibly 千 qiān was used to count thousands of 人 people (or 亻 rén was phonetic), or the connection with 人 is spurious. ‘Two thousand’, ‘three thousand’ etc. were once written like 千 but with additional horizontal strokes. Note that 万/萬(􂤤𥝅) ‘ten thousand, myriad’ originally depcited a ‘scorpion’, and that old forms associated with 千 look like old characters associated with a scorpion's claw (􂍉氐): 千 ‘1,000’ could be an old abbreviation of 萬 ‘10,000’.
+The Shuōwén Seal form of 千(􀘙) qiān ‘thousand’ (ten hundreds) is said to combine 十(􀘗) shí ‘ten’, and 亻/人(􁕎) rén ‘person’ (phonetic).
+	Older graphs associated with 千 are thought to modify 人 with a single stroke 一; numbers ‘2,000’, ‘3,000’ etc. were formerly wr.like 千, but with additional horizontal strokes.
+	Note: 万/萬(􂤤𥝅) ‘ten thousand, myriad’ originally depicted a ‘scorpion’; old forms associated with 千 look like old characters associated with a scorpion's claw (􂍉氐): 千 ‘1,000’ might be an old abbrev. of 萬 ‘10,000’; cf. 万.
+	Compare: 阡陌 qiānmò ‘paths between fields’, 阡 qiān ‘north-south path between fields’, formerly wr. 千, 仟.
+	Compare: 什(􁗑) shí ‘ten’ (大写).
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-#c丿十
+#c亻十人丿
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