jīn

Traditional: 今

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Translation

now, present, today (bound morpheme)

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Stroke order for 今

Examples

The weather is decent today.

Let's have dinner together tonight.

This year I want to go to Japan.

I still remember it to this day.

The weather is very good today.

今 (jīn) means now or present. In modern Mandarin it is always bound to a time word: 今天 (today), 今晚 (tonight), 今年 (this year).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 今.

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This word is part of lesson 102.