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Meaning of 天
Pinyin
tiān
Radical
大
Strokes
4
Definition
day / sky / heaven
Usage
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天 [tiān]
名
1. 在地面以上的高空。
(Above the ground, in the high sky.)
2. 在上面。
(Above.)
3. 气候。
(Weather; climate.)
4. 季节，时节。
(Season; time of the year.)
5. 日，一昼夜，或专指昼间。
(A day, a full day, or specifically daytime.)
6. 指神仙或他们所住的地方。
(Refers to deities or their dwelling places.)
7. 自然界。
(Nature; the natural world.)
8. 古代用来记日或年的字，有“天干”和“地支”两类，天干共十字。
(An ancient character for counting days or years, with “Heavenly Stems” and “Earthly Branches” types; there are ten Heavenly Stems.)
9. 自然的、生成的。
(Natural; generated from nature.)
形
1. 天然的;天生的。
(Natural; innate.)
2. 顶上的;架空的。
(Above; suspended in midair.)
例：
- 天空 (sky)
- 天气 (weather)
- 天长夜短 (long days and short nights in summer)
- 天生的 (innate)
引：
- 天，气也。
(Heaven, and also atmosphere.)
- 天帝，上天。
(Heavenly Emperor, Heaven.)
- 失其所天。
(Losing one's husband.)
lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / opposite extremes / a world of difference / a far cry from
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
stairway to heaven / high mountain road / tall ladder on a building or other large structure / space elevator
"heavenly lake", lake situated on a mountain / used as the name of numerous lakes, such as 長白山天池|长白山天池[Chang2 bai2 shan1 Tian1 chi2]
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Input Method for 天
Pinyin
tian1
Wubi
gdi
Cangjie
mk
Zhengma
agd
Four Corner
10804
Unicode
U+5929
Stroke Number Category
HSK Level Category