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昨天

zuótiān

yesterday

HSK 1 · Topic “Time” Time
yesterday
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Characters in this word

昨 zuó

Strokes
9
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 乍 first time, for the first time, suddenly
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 昨

天 tiān

Strokes
4
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
一 one 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 昨天我很忙。 Zuótiān wǒ hěn máng. I was very busy yesterday.
  • 昨天他来了。 Zuótiān tā lái le. He came yesterday.
  • 昨天我们看电影了。 Zuótiān wǒmen kàn diànyǐng le. We watched a film yesterday.

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