(jīn tiān) - today in Mandarin

jīntiān

Traditional: 今天

HSK 1

#143 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

today

Word origin

今天 means 'today': 今 (jīn, 'now, present') plus 天 (tiān, 'day'). 天 is an ideograph of a line above 大 (a person), marking the sky overhead.

Origin: compound
Root: 今 (jīn, now) + 天 (tiān, day)

Stroke order

今

天

Examples

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The weather is nice today.

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Are you busy today?

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What day of the week is today?

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Today's meeting was cancelled.

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I am in a bad mood today.

今天 (jīn tiān) means today. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

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This word is part of lesson 3.