How to pronounce jin tian (今天) in Chinese
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今天
jīn tiān
Characters & meanings
now; this (day/year)
day; sky
Common mistake
Double first (1-1): keep both syllables on one level high pitch — English speakers instinctively drop the second syllable, which turns tiān into something like a fourth tone.
Example sentence
今天天气很好。
Jīntiān tiānqì hěn hǎo.
The weather is nice today.
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