Home › Characters › 天
天 — stroke order
Watch how to write 天 (tiān) stroke by stroke. 天 has 4 strokes and means “sky”. It appears in common words such as 今天 (today) and 明天 (tomorrow). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 天
The most common words that use 天 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
今天jīntiāntoday明天míngtiāntomorrow天下tiānxiàland under heaven昨天zuótiānyesterday天氣tiānqìweather天天tiāntiānevery day
How 天 is written
- Radical
- 大
- Components
- 一 ＋ 大
- Formation
- Ideographic — The heavens 一 above a man 大.