HSK 3 · Food

甜 tián “sweet” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 甜 means

  1. sweet
  2. (fig.) pleasant
  3. endearing
  4. lovely

How to say 甜

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale甜tián2nd tone, rising

甜 in a sentence

  1. 这个芒果很甜。

    Zhè ge mángguǒ hěn tián.

    This mango is very sweet.

    Sentence #8875076 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这个蛋糕太甜了。

    Zhè ge dàngāo tài tián le.

    This cake is too sweet.

    Sentence #761076 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我想吃点不甜的东西。

    Wǒ xiǎng chī diǎn bù tián de dōngxi.

    I’d like to eat something that isn’t sweet.

    Sentence #5100261 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 甜 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 甜 (tián) with each of its parts in a different colour
甜tiánsweet
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 甘sweet · gān

How to write 甜

甜 11 strokes

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

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

Words related to 甜

More words: Food & Drink

饿è · hungry渴kě · thirsty面包miànbāo · bread啤酒píjiǔ · beer香蕉xiāngjiāo · banana饮料yǐnliào · beverage鸡jī · chicken外卖wàimài · takeaway (food)

FAQs

甜 (tián) means “sweet” or “(fig.) pleasant”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it tián: tián with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 甜 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 甜 from the suggestions. Typing tian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
甜 is an HSK 3 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.