天 (tiān): meaning and stroke order
天 (tiān) means day, sky, heaven.
天
- Simplified
- 天
- Traditional
- 天 (same form)
- Pinyin
- tiān
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Stroke order of 天
天
- tiān day; sky
- 4 strokes
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Meaning of 天
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tiān
- day
- sky
- heaven
Radical and structure
- 天
- Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 大 below
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Words with 天
- 天天 tiān tiān every day
- 天生 tiān shēng nature; disposition
- 上天 shàng tiān Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above
- 天上 tiān shàng the sky; the heavens
- 西天 Xī tiān the Western Paradise (Buddhism)
- 天气 tiān qì weather
- 天下 tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world
- 天空 tiān kōng sky
- 明天 míng tiān tomorrow
- 当天 dāng tiān on that day
- 半天 bàn tiān half of the day; a long time
- 天条 tiān tiáo heavenly decree; divine commandment; (fig.) unbreakable taboo; absolute edict (often humorous or sarcastic); prohibition decrees of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国[Tai4 ping2 Tian1 guo2]
天 in our stories
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医生说他不用吃药，这两天多喝热水，别吃冷的东西。
yīshēng shuō tā búyòng chī yào zhè liǎng tiān duō hē rè shuǐ bié chī lěng de dōngxi
The doctor says he doesn't need medicine: for the next two days he should drink plenty of hot water and not eat anything cold.
From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
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有一天，她上楼的时候觉得很累。
yǒu yì tiān tā shàng lóu de shíhou juéde hěn lèi
One day she felt very tired going up the stairs.
From the story A little more every day HSK 2
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春节前一天，冬冬和爸爸妈妈坐火车回爷爷奶奶家。
Chūnjié qián yì tiān Dōngdong hé bàba māma zuò huǒchē huí yéye nǎinai jiā
The day before the Spring Festival, Dongdong and his parents take the train to his grandparents' home.
From the story New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
Stories using 天
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
- A little more every day HSK 2
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The cheap room HSK 3
- The honest answer HSK 3
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).