今天 jīntiān▶ hoy

Stroke order

今天 is written in 8 strokes across 2 characters.

• 今 — 4 strokes
• 天 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. today
2. the present time; now

Example sentences

• 今天很热。Jīntiān hěn rè.Today is very hot.
• 今天是星期一。Jīntiān shì xīngqī yī.Today is Monday.

Related words

• 天气tiempo
• 明天mañana
• 昨天ayer
• 聊天charlar
• 礼拜天Domingo
• 天真ingenuo

今天 is pronounced jīntiān and means “hoy”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 今天 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.