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天
tiān
1. day
2. sky
3. heaven
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 4 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

天
tiān
sky, heaven; god, celestial
HSK 1 4 丶

Compound Words (20)

上天
shàngtiān
Heaven
中天
zhōngtiān
culmination (astronomy)
九天
jiǔtiān
the Ninth Heaven
今天
jīntiān
today
HSK 1
仰天
yǎngtiān
to face upwards
伏天
fútiān
the hottest period of the year
先天
xiāntiān
inborn
全天
quántiān
whole day
冬天
dōngtiān
winter
冶天
Yětiān
ATI, brand name of AMD graphics cards
冷天
lěngtiān
cold weather
刑天
Xíngtiān
Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor [[黃帝|黄帝<Huángdì>]]
前天
qiántiān
the day before yesterday
升天
shēngtiān
lit. to ascend to heaven
半天
bàntiān
half of the day
参天
cāntiān
reach high to the sky
回天
huítiān
lit. to reverse the rotation of the sky
夏天
xiàtiān
summer
天上
tiānshàng
celestial
天下
tiānxià
land under heaven

Example Sentences (6)

这两天怎么没看见小张？
Zhè liǎng tiān zěnme méi kànjiàn Xiǎo Zhāng?
How come I haven't seen Xiao Zhang these past two days?
Text 4
天阴了，我要回家了。
Tiān yīn le, wǒ yào huí jiā le.
It's cloudy; I'm going home now.
Text 4
这两天有点儿累，不去打球了。
Zhè liǎng tiān yǒu diǎnr lèi, bù qù dǎ qiú le.
I've been a bit tired these past two days; I'm not going to play ball.
Text 3
住三天。
Zhù sān tiān.
Stay for three days.
Text 3
三天。
Sān tiān.
Three days.
Text 1
哪一天突然没有了电脑，我们怎么办呢？
Nǎ yì tiān tūrán méiyǒu le diànnǎo, wǒmen zěnme bàn ne?
What would we do if one day we suddenly had no computers?
Text 4

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
77
Word Frequency Rank
221 of 84,292