Character Details
| day; sky; heaven | Ascii: 22825 | w217 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyu | Pinyin | Phonetics | Tone | Category | Alternative Sounds | ||
| 天 | tiān | tee:en | 1 | 2 | |||
| Frequency | Equation | Components | Wikitionary | Picture | |||
| 63 | N/A | N/A | 天 link |  | |||
| Story | Notes | ||||||
| If you think of the sky as a ceiling above our heads, here you have the heavens as the largest ceiling you could ever imagine. As Heisig pointed out, nothing comes above the ceiling primitive thus the order of primitives is taken care of. | sky, heaven, day | ||||||
| Examples | |||||||
| 1. Excuse me, what is the date today? | 2. --Research Pending-- | ||||||
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