5000 in Japanese
五千
Updated June 2026
5,000 in Japanese is 五千, written ごせん in hiragana and read go-sen. Go-sen: a round five-thousand, and a banknote
NUMERAL
5,000
KANJI
五千
HIRAGANA
ごせん
ROMAJI
go-sen
Build-by-place breakdown
Counter-attached forms
How 5000 attaches to common counters. Each links to the per-counter deep-dive.
Cultural context
The 5000-yen note is one of Japan’s three banknote denominations, alongside 1000 and 10,000 yen. The Bank of Japan issued a redesigned Series F 5000-yen note on 3 July 2024, its first redesign in 20 years. It carries a portrait of Tsuda Umeko, a Meiji-era pioneer of women’s higher education who founded the school that became Tsuda University, with wisteria on the reverse. Source: Bank of Japan; Wikipedia “5000 yen note”.
Real sentence examples
五千円札でお願いします (go-sen-en-satsu de onegai shimasu): in 5000-yen notes, please.
入場料は五千円です (nyūjōryō wa go-sen-en desu): the admission fee is 5000 yen.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Five thousand is go-sen, with no sound-change: go (5) simply attaches to sen (1000). It does not rendaku (not go-zen) and does not geminate. Compare the thousands that do change: san-zen (3000, rendaku) and has-sen (8000, gemination). 5000 is a common price point and one of Japan’s three banknote denominations, so go-sen-en (5000 yen) is an everyday phrase. The next unit up is ichi-man (10,000).
Frequently asked questions
How do you write 5,000 in Japanese?
5,000 is written 五千 in kanji and ごせん in hiragana. In romaji (modified Hepburn) it is go-sen.
What is 5,000 in hiragana?
5,000 in hiragana is ごせん. Hiragana spells out the reading go-sen phonetically; the kanji form is 五千.
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