天干

天干 in English

tiān gān: the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc

Character breakdown

天 tiān day
干 gān (bound form) to have to do with

Stroke order

Le caractère 天 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 天

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 干 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 干

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

天

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

干

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

他昨天干了一天活儿。

He worked all day yesterday.
我想知道，你这个夏天干了些什么？

I want to know what you did this summer.
蜜蜂在冬天干甚么呢？

What do bees do in winter?

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