白天

Character by character

• 白bái5 strokesHSK 1white; pure, unblemished; bright
• 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

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

Words with the same characters

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

• 天tiānHSK 1

  day; sky; heaven

• 今天jīn tiānHSK 1

  today; at the present; now

• 明天míng tiānHSK 1

  tomorrow

• 昨天zuó tiānHSK 1

  yesterday

• 明白míng baiHSK 1

  clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize

• 白báiHSK 1

  white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera

• 天气tiān qìHSK 1

  weather

• 聊天liáo tiān

  to chat; to gossip

• 白色bái sèHSK 2

  white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist

• 夏天xià tiānHSK 2

  summer

• 天堂tiān tángHSK 6

  paradise; heaven

• 冬天dōng tiānHSK 2

  winter

• 天空tiān kōngHSK 3

  sky

• 天使tiān shǐHSK 7

  angel

• 整天zhěng tiānHSK 3

  all day long; whole day

• 当天dāng tiānHSK 6

  on that day

• 天下tiān xiàHSK 6

  land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule

• 春天chūn tiānHSK 2

  spring (season)

• 天才tiān cáiHSK 5

  talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted

• 天生tiān shēngHSK 7

  nature; disposition; innate; natural

• 天上tiān shàngHSK 2

  celestial; heavenly

• 天真tiān zhēnHSK 4

  naive; innocent; artless

• 空白kòng báiHSK 7

  blank space

• 天赋tiān fùHSK 7

  gift; innate skill