天

sky; day

No. 79 most used · 0.26% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 379.

How it's built

• 一one
• 大big

A way to remember it

The line (一) above a big man (大): the sky.

Words

• 今天

  jīn tiān

  today; the present time; now
• 明天

  míng tiān

  tomorrow
• 每天

  měi tiān

  every day
• 昨天

  zuó tiān

  yesterday
• 那天

  nà tiān

  that day; the other day
• 老天

  lǎo tiān

  God; Heavens

Sentences

• 今天也是我的生日。

  jīn tiān yě shì wǒ de shēng rì

  Today is my birthday, too.
• 今天发生了什么事？

  jīn tiān fā shēng le shén me shì

  What happened today?
• 今天是美好的一天。

  jīn tiān shì měi hǎo de yì tiān

  Today is a beautiful day.
• 他今天不见得会来。

  tā jīn tiān bú jiàn de huì lái

  He is unlikely to come today.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.