Today in Chinese
today · HSK 1
今天
- 今 now
- 天 sky
今天天气很好。 The weather is nice today.
Other ways to say today
More words with 今 or 天
How do you say today in Chinese?
Today in Chinese is 今天 (jīn tiān). You can also say 今日 (jīn rì), 如今 (rú jīn), 当今 (dāng jīn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.