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今天

jīn tiān

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

今天 (jīn tiān) means "today". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 今天 means

1. today
2. the present time; now

The characters in 今天

• 今jīnnow; the present time; current
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven

Example sentences

• 今天我回家
  Jīntiān wǒ huíjiā
  Today I'm going home.
• 今天有风。
  Jīntiān yǒufēng.
  It's windy today.
• 今天很热。
  It is very hot today.
• 今天很冷。
  It's cold today.
• 今天下雪。
  It's snowy today.
• 今天多云。
  It's cloudy today.

Words containing 今天

• 也有今天yě yǒu jīn tiān(colloquial) to get one's just deserts; to serve sb right…

Where 今天 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Expressions (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jīn tiān correctly.
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