HSK 6 · Science

天文 tiānwén “astronomy” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 天文 means

  1. astronomy

How to say 天文

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale文wén2nd tone, rising

天文 in a sentence

  1. 他们对天文学十分感兴趣。

    Tāmen duì tiānwénxué shífēn gǎn xìngqù.

    They are very interested in astronomy.

    Sentence #1566316 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 他是个天文学专家。

    Tā shì ge tiānwénxué zhuānjiā.

    He’s an expert in astronomy.

    Sentence #469573 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 为了观测星象，他建了一座天文台。

    Wèile guāncè xīngxiàng, tā jiàn le yí zuò tiānwéntái.

    He built an observatory to observe the stars.

    Sentence #1238439 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 天文 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

The character 文 (wén) with each of its parts in a different colour
文wénlanguage
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 乂to govern · yì

Memory aidDrawn from a person with a pattern on the chest. It came to mean writing and culture.

How to write 天文

天 4 strokes · 文 4 strokes

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天文 (tiānwén) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 天文 (tiānwén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 天文

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter

Words with 文

中文Zhōngwén · Chinese language文化wénhuà · culture课文kèwén · text (of a lesson)文章wénzhāng · article文明wénmíng · civilised论文lùnwén · paper文字wénzì · writing作文zuòwén · to write an essay文件wénjiàn · document文学wénxué · literature

More words: Science & Technology

试验shìyàn · test太空tàikōng · outer space探测tàncè · to detect弹性tánxìng · elasticity体积tǐjī · volume提炼tíliàn · to refine统计tǒngjì · statistics椭圆tuǒyuán · oval

FAQs

天文 (tiānwén) means “astronomy”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tiānwén: tiān with a 1st tone, then wén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 天文 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tianwen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 天文 from the suggestions. Typing tianwen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
天文 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.