天
tiān HSK1

sky

天 tiān
day measure word
a unit of time equal to twenty-four hours

他在北京住了三天。

tā zài Běi​jīng zhù le sān tiān.

He stayed in Beijing for three days.

sky noun
the atmosphere and outer space as seen from the earth

深秋的天总是那么高，那么蓝，看不见一丝云朵。

shēn​qiū de tiān zǒng​shì nà​me gāo, nà​me lán, kàn bù jiàn yī sī yún​duǒ.

The late autumn sky is always so high and blue, without a single cloud in sight.

heaven noun
the abode of God or the gods; divine providence or nature

这是上天的安排。

zhè shì shàng tiān de ān​pái.

This is the arrangement of heaven.

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
78th most common 2169.9 per million
Movie subtitles
63rd most common 2712.4 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1510.1 per million appears in 98% of films
Written text
1086.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5929

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)