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千

千 (Sen) is a surname from Middle Chinese. It is used in Japanese.

Japanese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Sen.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

千 comes from Middle Chinese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

千’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 千 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sen. In Japanese usage, 千 as a surname has a related form in チョン.

Walk 千’s family in the name graph

千SenチョンChienQian

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named 千

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No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

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