HSK 1 · Time

明天 míngtiān “tomorrow” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 明天 means

  1. tomorrow

How to say 明天

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale明míng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level

明天 in a sentence

  1. 你明天上午吃什么？

    Nǐ míngtiān shàngwǔ chī shénme?

    What are you having to eat tomorrow morning?

    Sentence #10966840 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我明天不在这儿。

    Wǒ míngtiān bú zài zhèr.

    Tomorrow I won’t be here.

    Sentence #1415796 from Tatoeba

  3. 我觉得明天会很热。

    Wǒ juéde míngtiān huì hěn rè.

    I think it’ll be hot tomorrow.

    Sentence #9955857 from Tatoeba

How 明天 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 明 (míng) with each of its parts in a different colour
明míngbright
  • 日sun · rì
  • 月moon · yuè

Memory aidThe light of the sun 日 and the moon 月 together: bright.

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.

How to write 明天

明 8 strokes · 天 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 明天

Words with 明

明年míngnián · next year明白míngbai · clear聪明cōngming · intelligent说明shuōmíng · to explain证明zhèngmíng · proof明确míngquè · clear表明biǎomíng · to make clear发明fāmíng · to invent光明guāngmíng · bright明显míngxiǎn · clear

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today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春天chūntiān · spring (season)

More words: Time

下午xiàwǔ · afternoon月yuè · month星期xīngqī · week今天jīntiān · today中午zhōngwǔ · noon昨天zuótiān · yesterday现在xiànzài · now点diǎn · o’clock

FAQs

明天 (míngtiān) means “tomorrow”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it míngtiān: míng with a 2nd tone, then tiān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 明天 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mingtian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 明天 from the suggestions. Typing mingtian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
明天 is an HSK 1 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.