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天赋 tiānfù “natural talent” in Chinese

Traditional 天賦

What 天赋 means

  1. natural talent
  2. gift
  3. innate skill

How to say 天赋

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赋fù4th tone, falling

天赋 in a sentence

  1. 你有什么特殊的天赋吗？

    Nǐ yǒu shénme tèshū de tiānfù ma?

    Do you have any special talents?

    Sentence #13880619 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我听说你很有天赋。

    Wǒ tīngshuō nǐ hěn yǒu tiānfù.

    I hear you’re very talented.

    Sentence #10543792 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他善用他的天赋。

    Tā shànyòng tā de tiānfù.

    He makes good use of his talents.

    Sentence #333169 from Tatoeba

How 天赋 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 赋 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
赋fùpoetic essay
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
  • 武military · wǔ

How to write 天赋

天 4 strokes · 赋 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 天赋

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 赋

赋予fùyǔ · to give

More words: Ideas & Concepts

俗话súhuà · common saying素质sùzhì · quality特长tècháng · strength天才tiāncái · genius天堂tiāntáng · heaven条理tiáolǐ · order体系tǐxì · system统筹兼顾tǒngchóujiāngù · to plan as a whole and consider all aspects

FAQs

天赋 (tiānfù) means “natural talent” or “gift”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tiānfù: tiān with a 1st tone, then fù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 天赋 is written 天賦. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tianfu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 天赋 from the suggestions. Typing tianfu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
天赋 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.