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天
tiān
天 (tiān) means "day; sky; heaven". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.
What 天 means
- day
- sky
- heaven
Example sentences
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春天了Chūntiān leIt's spring.
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天哪！Gosh!
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天啊！My goddess!
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天很冷。It's cold.
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明天见。See you tomorrow.
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明天见！See you tomorrow.
Words starting with 天
- 天气tiān qìweather
- 天空tiān kōngsky
- 天真tiān zhēnnaive; innocent; artless
- 天下tiān xiàland under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China
- 天堂tiān tángparadise; heaven
- 天才tiān cáitalent; gift; genius
- 天生tiān shēngnature; disposition; innate
- 天文tiān wénastronomy
- 天然气tiān rán qìnatural gas
- 天伦之乐tiān lún zhī lèfamily love and joy; domestic bliss
- 天地tiān dìheaven and earth; world; scope
- 天津Tiān jīnTianjin municipality (short name 津
- 天上tiān shàngthe sky; the heavens
- 天使tiān shǐangel
- 天安门Tiān ān ménTiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
- 天然tiān ránnatural
- 天涯tiān yáthe other end of the world; a faraway place
- 天亮tiān liàngto grow light (at daybreak)
- 天色tiān sècolor of the sky; time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky; weather
- 天黑tiān hēito get dark; dusk
- 天赋tiān fùgift; innate skill
- 天花板tiān huā bǎnceiling (of a room); (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field)
- 天性tiān xìngnature; innate tendency
- 天桥tiān qiáooverhead walkway; pedestrian bridge
Words containing 天
- 今天jīn tiāntoday; the present time; now
- 昨天zuó tiānyesterday
- 明天míng tiāntomorrow
- 每天měi tiānevery day
- 那天nà tiānthat day; the other day
- 聊天liáo tiānto chat; to gossip
- 礼拜天Lǐ bài tiānSunday
- 航天háng tiānspace flight
- 成天chéng tiān(colloquial) all day long; all the time
- 得天独厚dé tiān dú hòublessed by heaven (idiom); enjoying exceptional advantages; favored by nature
- 夏天xià tiānsummer
- 冬天dōng tiānwinter
- 半天bàn tiānhalf of the day; a long time; quite a while
- 白天bái tiāndaytime; during the day; day
- 当天dāng tiānon that day
- 春天chūn tiānspring (season)
- 整天zhěng tiānall day long; whole day
- 秋天qiū tiānautumn
- 星期天Xīng qī tiānSunday
- 这天zhè tiānthis day
- 前几天qián jǐ tiāna few days ago; a few days before; the past few days
- 蓝天lán tiānblue sky
- 前天qián tiānthe day before yesterday
- 上天shàng tiānHeaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards
Characters that look like 天
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
- 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
- 无wúnot to have; no; none
- 未wèinot yet; did not; have not
- 犬quǎn(literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94
- 夭yāo(bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. yǎo); (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
Sounds the same
Read tiān, tone for tone, but written differently.
Where 天 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 1 Characters · Set 6 (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.
- How characters are built from components.
- How to learn Chinese characters.
- The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tiān correctly.
- Look up another word in the free dictionary.
Looking a word up is not learning it. GraphChinese puts all of HSK 1–6 into one dependency graph, teaches each piece only once its prerequisites are solid, and schedules reviews to land just before you would forget.
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