HSK 6 · Nature

天然气 tiānránqì “natural gas” in Chinese

Traditional 天然氣

What 天然气 means

  1. natural gas

How to say 天然气

  • 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然rán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale气qì4th tone, falling

天然气 in a sentence

  1. 你们做饭用天然气还是用电？

    Nǐmen zuòfàn yòng tiānránqì háishi yòng diàn?

    Do you cook with gas or electricity?

    Sentence #1397363 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这辆车靠天然气驱动。

    Zhè liàng chē kào tiānránqì qūdòng.

    This car runs on natural gas.

    Sentence #8882015 from Tatoeba

  3. 天然气的价格上升。

    Tiānránqì de jiàgé shàngshēng.

    The price of natural gas is rising.

    Sentence #834535 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 天然气 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 然 (rán) with each of its parts in a different colour
然ráncorrect
  • 肰dog meat · ránSound part
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part

灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 肰 (rán) hints at the sound. Compare it with rán.

Memory aidFire 灬 under meat 肰. Its first meaning was “to burn”, now written 燃 (rán).

The character 气 (qì) drawn as one shape
气qìgas; air

气 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from layers of vapour rising: air, steam, breath.

How to write 天然气

天 4 strokes · 然 12 strokes · 气 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 天然气

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 然

虽然suīrán · although当然dāngrán · of course突然tūrán · sudden然后ránhòu · then自然zìrán · nature既然jìrán · since竟然jìngrán · unexpectedly然而rán'ér · however仍然réngrán · still必然bìrán · inevitable

Words with 气

天气tiānqì · weather不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome生气shēngqì · angry气qì · air力气lìqi · strength空气kōngqì · air气候qìhòu · climate脾气píqi · temper淘气táoqì · naughty小气xiǎoqì · stingy

More words: Nature & Environment

石油shíyóu · oil水利shuǐlì · water conservancy饲养sìyǎng · to raise台风táifēng · typhoon田野tiányě · fields土壤tǔrǎng · soil温带wēndài · temperate zone窝wō · nest

FAQs

天然气 (tiānránqì) means “natural gas”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tiānránqì: tiān with a 1st tone, then rán with a 2nd tone, then qì 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, 天然气 is written 天然氣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tianranqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 天然气 from the suggestions. Typing tianranqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
天然气 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.