天
Meaning
- day
- sky
- heaven
Example sentence
天非常暗。
The sky is very dark.
The character 天
天 is 大, a person with arms out, under a line: what is over the head. Sky and heaven, and then the day beneath it — 今天, 明天, 昨天, 每天 — with 天气 for the mood of the air.
Words containing 天
- 白天 bái tiān daytime
- 半天 bàn tiān half of the day
- 后天 hòu tiān the day after tomorrow
- 今天 jīn tiān today
- 明天 míng tiān tomorrow
- 前天 qián tiān the day before yesterday
- 天气 tiān qì weather
- 星期天 Xīng qī tiān Sunday
- 昨天 zuó tiān yesterday
- 春天 chūn tiān spring (season)
- 冬天 dōng tiān winter
- 晴天 qíng tiān clear sky
- 秋天 qiū tiān autumn
- 天上 tiān shàng the sky; the heavens
- 夏天 xià tiān summer
- 阴天 yīn tiān cloudy day; overcast sky
- 天空 tiān kōng sky
- 整天 zhěng tiān all day long
- 天真 tiān zhēn naive