The Chinese word for day is
白天
báitiān
Translations for day and their definitions
| 天 | |
| 1. sky; heavens; heavenly; celestial | |
| 天空 - sky - | |
| 天 黑 了。 - It's getting dark. (lit. The sky is becoming black) | |
| 2. (mythology or religion) heaven as the abode of the gods or the blessed departed; heavenly | |
| 上天 - to go up to the sky; to go to heaven - | |
| 天意 - Heaven's will - | |
| 3. (mythology or religion) Heaven as an impersonal deity; (often translated as God) | |
| 天主 - God - | |
| 老天 - god - | |
| 我 的 天 啊！ - Oh my God! - | |
| 天 助 自 助 者。 - God helps those who help themselves. | |
| 4. top; overhead | |
| 天橋 - footbridge - | |
| 天窗 - sunroof - | |
| 5. weather; climate | |
| 天 很 冷。 - It's very cold. | |
| 如果 天 晴，我們 就 去 散步。 - If the weather clears, we'll go for a walk. | |
| 6. day (24 hours) | |
| 今天 - today - | |
| 明天 - tomorrow - | |
| 三 天 - three days - | |
| 7. day (as opposed to night) | |
| 白天 - daytime - | |
| 三 天 兩 夜 - three days and two nights - | |
| 8. period of time in a day | |
| 五更天 - just before dawn - | |
| 天 不 早 了。 - It's getting late. | |
| 9. season | |
| 春天、夏天、秋天、冬天 - spring, summer, autumn, winter | |
| 黃梅天 - rainy season - | |
| 10. nature | |
| 天災 - natural disaster - | |
| 11. natural; innate | |
| 天生 - innate - | |
| 天性 - nature, personality - | |
| 天才 - genius - |
| 日 | |
| 1. (star) Sun | |
| 2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset | |
| 日班 (rìbān) - day shift | |
| Antonyms: 夜 | |
| 3. day; twenty-four hours | |
| 4. everyday; daily; day-to-day | |
| 5. day of the month | |
| 三.月 四 日 (sān yuè sì rì) - March 4 | |
| Synonyms: 號 | |
| 6. some day; some other time | |
| 7. former times; previous times; the past | |
| 8. time; period; age | |
| 9. Short for 日本, gloss=Japan; Japanese; Nippo-: | |
| 中日 詞典 (zhōngrì cídiǎn) - Chinese-Japanese dictionary | |
| 10. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞, gloss=Spain | |
| 11. (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 日, id=1 | |
| 12. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with | |
| 狗日 (gǒurì) - fucking | |
| 13. Only used in (l-self-lite, zh, sc=Hant, 日)磾, a Han dynasty-era personal name borne by Jin Midi (lw, zh, 金日磾) and Ma Midi (lw, zh, 馬日磾, tr=-). | |
| 14. Variant of 時 |
| 一天 | |
| 1. n. one day (twenty-four hours) | |
| 2. n. the entire daytime of one day | |
| 幹gàn 了 一天 - worked for a whole day | |
| 3. n. someday; one day | |
| 總 有 一天 - there will be a day (when ...) | |
| 4. n. (colloquial) the whole day |
| 白天 | |
| 1. n. daytime; day | |
| 白天 開 大燈 - to turn on the headlights in broad daylight | |
| 白天 是 教授，晚上shang 是 禽獸 - professor by day, beast by night |
| 白晝 | |
| 1. n. daytime |
| 白昼 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 白晝 |
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