天堂
tiāntáng
heaven; paradise
Characters in this word
堂 táng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 在逃离战乱多年后，他第一次觉得，有尊严地生活比任何想象中的天堂都更珍贵。 Zài táolí zhànluàn duōnián hòu, tā dì yī cì juéde, yǒu zūnyán de shēnghuó bǐ rènhé xiǎngxiàng zhōng de tiāntáng dōu gèng zhēnguì. After years of fleeing war, he felt for the first time that living with dignity was more precious than any imagined paradise.
- 海南冬天温暖，是度假的天堂。 Hǎinán dōngtiān wēnnuǎn, shì dùjià de tiāntáng. Hainan is warm in winter, a paradise for vacationers.
- 对他来说，一间安静的书房就是天堂。 Duì tā lái shuō, yī jiān ānjìng de shūfáng jiùshì tiāntáng. For him, a quiet study is simply paradise.