Amharic · Numbers & Time
shi
Thousand
The number one thousand.
ከተማዋ የሺ ዓመታት ታሪክ አላት።
The city has a thousand-year history.
'ሺ' (shi) also comes from the Ge'ez numeral system, where it denotes thousands. Its form has persisted through generations in Ethiopian counting.
'ሺ' is used in informal and formal contexts in speech and writing, commonly found in numerical expressions such as finance and records.