今天
Chinese
[edit]today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now |
day; sky; heaven | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (今天) | 今 | 天 | |
| simp. #(今天) | 今 | 天 | |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): jin1 tian1
- (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): җинтян (žinti͡an, I-II)
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gam1 tin1
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): gim1 tiên1
- Jin (Wiktionary): jing1 tie1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kim-thian
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1cin-thi1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄊㄧㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jintian
- Wade–Giles: chin1-tʻien1
- Yale: jīn-tyān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jintian
- Palladius: цзиньтянь (czinʹtjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, colloquial)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄧㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jinyan
- Wade–Giles: chin1-yen1
- Yale: jīn-yān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinian
- Palladius: цзиньянь (czinʹjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ jɛn⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: jin1 tian1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: gintian
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ tʰiɛn⁵⁵/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: җинтян (žinti͡an, I-II)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕiŋ²⁴ tʰiæ̃⁵¹/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: gam1 tin1
- Yale: gām tīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: gam1 tin1
- Guangdong Romanization: gem1 tin1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: jing1 tie1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕiŋ¹¹ tʰie¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
- Wu
Noun
[edit]今天
- today
- nowadays; the present time
- 我們今天的主要敵人是帝國主義、封建主義和官僚資本主義，我們今天同敵人作鬥爭的主要力量是佔全國人口百分之九十的一切從事體力勞動和腦力勞動的人民。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1948, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於民族資產階級和開明紳士問題》 (On the Question of the National Bourgeoisie and the Enlightened Gentry), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Wǒmen jīntiān de zhǔyào dírén shì dìguózhǔyì, fēngjiànzhǔyì hé guānliáozīběnzhǔyì, wǒmen jīntiān tóng dírén zuò dòuzhēng de zhǔyào lìliàng shì zhàn quánguó rénkǒu bǎifēnzhī jiǔshí de yīqiè cóngshì tǐlì láodòng hé nǎolì láodòng de rénmín. [Pinyin]
- At present our chief enemies are imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism, while the main forces in our struggle against these enemies are the people engaged in manual and mental labour, who make up 90 per cent of the country's population.
我们今天的主要敌人是帝国主义、封建主义和官僚资本主义，我们今天同敌人作斗争的主要力量是占全国人口百分之九十的一切从事体力劳动和脑力劳动的人民。 [MSC, simp.]
Usage notes
[edit]- In Cantonese 今天 is formal.
Synonyms
[edit]- (today):
Dialectal synonyms of 今天 (“today”) [map]
Derived terms
[edit]- 也有今天 (yě yǒu jīntiān)
See also
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