Character Details
| yesterday | Ascii: 26469 | w761 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 昨天 | zuótiān | djeu:oh-tee:en | 2+1 | 容 (宀 roof radical + 谷 valley) + 易 (日 sun + 勿 not) | 昨天 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
 |
Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How was the weather in Beijing yesterday? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; time word | 昨 (日 sun + 乍 sudden) + 天 (big + one) | ||||||||||
| Yesterday: sudden (乍) sun (日) day (天). | |||||||||||