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今天

jīn tiān 1–1

today; at the present; now

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
今 · 天
Syllables
2
jīn tiān
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 155

Part of speech: t

Character by character

  • 今jīn4 strokesHSK 1now, today, modern era
  • 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

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

Example sentences

  • 今天有风。

    Jīn tiān yǒu fēng

    It is windy today.

  • 今天我回家

    Jīn tiān wǒ huí jiā

    Today I'm going home.

  • 他今天在家。

    Tā jīn tiān zài jiā

    He is at home today.

  • 今天不用上学。

    Jīn tiān bù yòng shàng xué

    There is no school today.

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 今天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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