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Mythic Mandarin

昨天 (zuó tiān): meaning and stroke order

昨天 (zuó tiān) means yesterday.

昨天

Simplified
昨天
Traditional
昨天 (same form)
Pinyin
zuó tiān

Stroke order of 昨天

昨

  • zuó yesterday
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

天

  • tiān day; sky
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 昨天

  1. zuó tiān
    • yesterday

Radicals of the characters

昨
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on the left, 乍 on the right
天
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 大 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

昨天 in our stories

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  • 刘阳从昨天晚上开始肚子疼。

    Liú Yáng cóng zuótiān wǎnshang kāishǐ dùzi téng

    Liu Yang has had a stomach ache since last night.

    From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2

Where you learn it

昨天 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 2 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 昨天

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).