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昨天

zuó tiān 2–1

yesterday

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
昨 · 天
Syllables
2
zuó tiān
Frequency
Common
corpus count 557

Part of speech: t

Character by character

  • 昨zuó9 strokesHSK 1yesterday; in former times, past
  • 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我昨天没回家。

    Wǒ zuó tiān méi huí jiā

    I didn't go home yesterday.

  • 我昨天没工作。

    Wǒ zuó tiān méi gōng zuò

    I didn't work yesterday.

  • 昨天他来见你。

    Zuó tiān tā lái jiàn nǐ

    He came yesterday to see you.

  • 她是昨天去的。

    Tā shì zuó tiān qù de

    It was yesterday that she went.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 昨天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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