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weather
HSK 1
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  *天* | 天* | *天
day / sky / heaven
HSK 1
natural
HSK 6
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
astronomical unit (AU)
Scorpio (constellation)
as if made by heaven
Cygnus (constellation)
to grow light (at daybreak)
astronomical telescope
to get dark / dusk
astronomy
HSK 5
talent / gift / genius / talented / gifted
HSK 5
land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule
HSK 6
ceiling (of a room) / (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field)
natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect)
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖 / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗 / Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang
every day
Tianjin municipality (abbr. to )
the other end of the world / a faraway place
natural gift / talent
HSK 7-9
see 天啊
smallpox / ceiling / stamen of corn / (old) snow / (dialect) sesame oil
the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom) / fig. the natural order of things / something you can't go against
Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan
number of days / fate / destiny
the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
(idiom) far apart / (idiom) from different places; from all over / (idiom) (to talk) about this and that
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
Tiananmen Square
good heavens!; oh my God!
Lyra, constellation containing Vega 織女星|织女星
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
(idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
providence / the Will of Heaven
extremely expensive / sky-high price
angel
HSK 7-9
God (in Catholicism) / abbr. for 天主教, Catholicism
lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom) / fig. extravagant embellishments; hype
weather
a match made in heaven; a perfect couple
god / deity
all good things must come to an end (idiom)
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
astronomy
balance scale / Taiwan pr. [tian1 ping2]
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
Gastrodia elata (botany)
astronomer
swan
HSK 7-9
mystery known only to heaven (archaic) / inscrutable twist of fate / fig. top secret
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another
daybreak
pillars supporting heaven
Scorpio or Scorpius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
Kingdom of Heaven
distance between two poles / poles apart
astrophysics
absolutely fair and reasonable (idiom); equitable
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
naive / innocent / artless
HSK 4
gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous
Heaven's law / the natural order of things
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations
(loanword from Japanese "tennen boke") space cadet / muddleheaded
oneness of heaven and humanity / the theory that man is an integral part of nature
Catholic / follower of Catholicism
Uranus (planet)
horizon
Man and Heaven / celestial being
Tianjin municipality (abbr. to )
there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
color of the sky / time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky / weather
the upper margin of a page
a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom) / to have something fall into your lap
Libra (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
Heaven is not cooperating (idiom) / the weather is not favorable for the planned activity
geranium (Pelargonium hortorum)
celestial body / nude body
Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原 / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
Tian Shan, mountain range straddling the border between China and Kyrgyzstan
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
sky
HSK 3
the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
emperor / god / Hong Xiuquan's self-proclaimed title / see also 洪秀全
paradise / heaven
HSK 6
far-flung realms as next door (idiom) / close in spirit although far away
bane of others' existence
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom) / fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
(Tw) (slang) privileged people oblivious to the hardships of others; Taipei residents or urban dwellers who consider themselves superior to others (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 天竜人 "Tenryūjin", an arrogant, privileged group in the manga "One Piece")
predator; natural enemy

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