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昨天

zuó tiān

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

昨天 (zuó tiān) means "yesterday". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 昨天 means

1. yesterday

The characters in 昨天

• 昨zuóyesterday
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven

Example sentences

• 我是昨天来的
  I arrived yesterday.
• 昨天是多云。
  Zuótiān shì duōyún.
  It was cloudy yesterday.
• 我昨天感冒了
  I caught a cold yesterday.
• 我昨天很忙。
  I was busy yesterday.
• 昨天下雨了。
  It rained yesterday.
• 他昨天死了。
  He died yesterday.

Where 昨天 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.

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