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Summary: Learn how to write "thousand" in Chinese characters with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.
Esther-Xiaohua Liu is a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at...read more
"ESTHER-XIAOHUA LIU: The first word is qian, qian, qian. Qi-an, qian. Qian means a thousand, a thousand. This word is pretty easy to write down, your first stroke and then second and third. So actually, this word is really interesting. See this part without this stroke means 10, 10. So when you put one more stroke on the top of 10 and the 10 becomes a thousand, qian, qian."
eHow Article: How to Write "Thousand" in Chinese Characters