thousand

= 丿 + : The Queen of Hearts dropped a kilo on her banana in front of the anthill, and now she uses a cross to try and revive it.
see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

千 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

Characters with 千 as component

heavy / serious / to attach importance to

= + : This one looks like a space elevator. The two top strokes are the heavens, the two bottom strokes are the earth and the part in between is the space elevator.

= + : Julian Giant Squid installed a space elevator in the engine's bathroom, and now he wants to find out how heavy the load can be. For his first trip he loads 1000 times 1 kilo, and to celebrate the grand opening, he brought a sunflower.
to repeat / repetition / again / re- / classifier: layer

= + : Chantal Chicken set a new world record in the engine's kitchen. She repeatedly rode a space elevator up and down, one thousand times in total. For setting the world record she got a sunflower.
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
to annihilate / abbr. for 殲擊機|歼击机[jian1 ji1 ji1], fighter plane

= + : In front of the anthill (an1) Joan of Arc (ji) is annihilating (歼) the wicked witch (歹) by smashing her to bits with a kilo (千).
to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote

= + : The Queen of Hearst (qi) prepares to move (迁) into a new home (迁) in front of the anthill (an1). She is wearing gladiator sandals (辶) and carrying a kilo (千).
(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal

= + : Gitta Giraffe wants to behave well in front of the airplane. She has a compass rose and a kilo, but she is totally not going to squash the compass rose.
I; me; my

= + : I (我) find Willy Walrus (w) lying motionless in the observatory's living room (o3), and there's a dagger-axe (戈) sticking right in his chest. I (我) try to pull it out while wearing a baseball glove (手).
variant of 熏[xun1]

= + : Xu Xian (xu) is getting ready to go out on a data in front of the encampment ((e)n1). To create a perfume (熏) he smashes a blackboard (黑) to a fine powder using a kilo (千) and perfumes (熏) himself with the smoking (熏) powder.
fragrance / warm / to educate / variant of 熏[xun1] / to smoke / to fumigate

= + : Xu Xian (xu) is getting ready to go out on a data in front of the encampment ((e)n1). To create a perfume (熏) he smashes a blackboard (黑) to a fine powder using a kilo (千) and perfumes (熏) himself with the smoking (熏) powder.
to smoke / to fumigate / to assail the nostrils / to perfume

= + : Xu Xian (xu) is getting ready to go out on a data in front of the encampment ((e)n1). To create a perfume (熏) he smashes a blackboard (黑) to a fine powder using a kilo (千) and perfumes (熏) himself with the smoking (熏) powder.
fine / delicate / minute

= + : Marie Curie (xi) finds that there are many fine (纤) silk worms (纟) in front of the anthill (a1). She wants to preserve the delicate (纤) worms and thus puts a kilo (千) on them to press and dry them.
boatman's tow-rope

Words with 千

lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight
time is gold / every minute counts
Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章[Cao2 Yu2 zhang1]

Sentences with 千

bǎ
nà
sa̅n
qia̅n
liù
bǎi
ji̅n
de
dà
huán
da̅o
ná
lái