thousand

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a 1 kg weight.

The Queen of Hearts (qi) dropped a kilogram (千) on her banana (丿) in front of the anthill (an1), and now she uses a cross (十) 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

grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]
to separate the grain from the husk

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is using a kilo (千) and a mortar (臼) to separate grain and husk (臿) in front of the ashram (a1) before the winnowing.
road leading north and south
(bound form) to feel remorse / (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama")
feel remorse / regret / repent
green / luxuriant growth
thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

= + : Rosa Luxemburg and the Queen of Hearts investigate a suspicious kilo in front of the anthill. As they lift it, they discover it's a fake kilo: it weighs only 999g!
kilowatt (old) / single-character equivalent of 千瓦[qian1 wa3]
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc)
kilogram (old) / single-character equivalent of 千克[qian1 ke4]
kilogram (old) (single-character equivalent of 千克[qian1 ke4])
kilometer

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