天 (tiān) means Day (heaven - sky). Below are 24 of the 646 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
早上 天 气还很好。
zǎoshang tiānqì hái / huán hěnhǎo.
The weather was still fine in the morning.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
今 天 早上我迟到了。
jīntiān zǎoshang wǒ chídào le / liǎo / liào.
I was late this morning.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
那 天 下午我很不高兴。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ wǒ hěn bù gāoxìng.
I felt low all that afternoon.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
那 天 我做到夜里一点。
nà / nèi tiān wǒ zuòdào yèlǐ yīdiǎn.
I worked until one in the morning that night.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
我们每 天 学习二十个字。
wǒmen měitiān xuéxí èrshí gè zì.
We learn twenty characters a day.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
From the travel phrasebook
几 天 能发？
Jǐ tiān néng fā?
How many days until it goes out?
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
明 天 上午的。
Míngtiān shàngwǔ de.
For tomorrow morning.
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
现货，明 天 发。
Xiànhuò, míngtiān fā.
In stock, ships tomorrow.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
From the grammar library
天 冷了。
Tiān lěng le.
It's got cold.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
明 天 我不去。
Míngtiān wǒ bú qù.
I'm not going tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 不 vs 没 — the two negations
他昨 天 来了。
Tā zuótiān lái le.
He came yesterday.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
我明 天 去北京。
Wǒ míngtiān qù Běijīng.
I'm going to Beijing tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
天 appears in 646 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 天
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Questions about 天
How is 天 used in a sentence?
This page shows 646 sentences using 天 (tiān, "Day (heaven - sky)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 天 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 天 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 天?
The dictionary page for 天 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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