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The original title of the Japanese anime "Spirited Away" is "千と千尋の神隠し". I know
that 千尋 is the name "Chihiro" and 神隠 means "spirited away", so the phrase
"千尋の神隠" makes sense to me. But what is the purpose of the first "千"
("thousand")? What does the whole title mean?


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What does the original Japanese title of "Spirited Away" mean?


The [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away) has what you
want:

> "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away"

Here, the 千 refers to "Sen". As
[кяαzєя](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/%d0%ba%d1%8f%ce%b1z%d1%94%d1%8f)
notes, this is the name Yubaba uses to refer to Chihiro.


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