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礼拜天

Lǐ bài tiān

HSK 5 3-character word Traditional 禮拜天

What 礼拜天 means

1. Sunday

The characters in 礼拜天

• 礼lǐgift; rite; ceremony
• 拜bàito bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings…
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven

Example sentences

• 礼拜天我去教会。
  Lǐbàitiān wǒqù jiāohuì.
  I go to the church on Sundays.
• 他们礼拜天上教堂。
  Tāmen Lǐbàitiān shàng jiàotáng.
  They go to church on Sunday.
• 上个礼拜天我刚好有空。
  Shàngge Lǐbàitiān wǒ gānghǎo yǒukòng.
  It happened that I was free last Sunday.

Where 礼拜天 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time & Temporal Expressions (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Lǐ bài tiān correctly.
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