Character Details day; sky; heaven Ascii: — w217 Hanyu Pinyin Pronunciation Tone Components/Primitives Wiktionary Alt Sounds 天 tiān tee:en 1 大 (big) + 一 (horizontal) → sky; day 天 link Picture Character Story 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. Notes [HSK 1] - sky, heaven, day Examples 5156 - Excuse me, what is the date today? 5100 - --Research Pending-- Strokes Single Character Decomposition Radical Name Label Domain Component Persona Example Characters — - 大 dà big big large person shape 大 天 Elements Semantic Element Phonetic Element Note 大 (big) + 一 (horizontal) → sky; day 大 (semantic origin) 一 (phonetic) phonetic from 一
