天 (tiān)
day/sky
How 天 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Traditional
- 天
- Simplified
- 天 (unchanged)
Common words using 天
- 今天 jīntiān
- today; at the present; now
- 天下 tiānxià
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China
- 明天 míngtiān
- tomorrow
- 昨天 zuótiān
- yesterday
- 上天 shàngtiān
- Heaven; Providence; God
- 中天 zhōngtiān
- culmination (astronomy)
- 倚天屠龍記 yǐtiāntúlóngjì
- Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, wuxia (武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations
- 冬天 dōngtiān
- winter; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 前天 qiántiān
- the day before yesterday
- 半天 bàntiān
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while
- 夏天 xiàtiān
- summer; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大鬧天宮 dànàotiāngōng
- Monkey wreaks havoc in heaven, story about the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空[Sun1 Wu4 kong1] from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
天 in a sentence
今天天氣真好。
Jīntiān tiānqì zhēn hǎo.
“The weather is really nice today.”
How common is 天?
天 is the 78th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 37.3% of all running text.
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