The Chinese Radical: 天


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Meaning
sky    天

Explanation The line 一 above the big 大 person indicates the sky. - Don't mistake with "early death" 夭, even though there is some overlapping in the explanations.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
sky, heaven
tiān
A big 大 person with the sky/heaven 一 above him.
As far as a big person can reach is: the sky.  
JLPT HSK 1
to close, to shut, to turn off, mountain pass
guān
Top: out of 丷, below: heaven 天 - Shows a mountain pass (=lowest section of a ridge), which is "in the sky", but from which it gets higher 丷
(Depending on the weather) A mountain pass can be closed.  
JLPT HSK 2
laugh, smile
xiào
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: early death 夭 (here seen as heaven 天) [sky 天 = The line 一 above the big 大 person indicates the sky.]
Bamboo that grows up to heaven? This is to laugh!  
JLPT HSK 4
mistake, error, to miss, to harm, to delay

Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: 吴, (mouth 口 and heaven 天)
The words that a mouth can be above heaven were a mistake.  
JLPT HSK 5
to jump, to leap
yuè
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: early death 夭 (here: sky 天 = The line 一 above the big 大 person indicates the sky.)
With your feet you get skywards when: jumping.  
JLPT HSK 6
to swallow, drink, absorb
tūn
Top: sky 天, bottom: mouth 口
Like from the sky and through the mouth, when: swallowing.  
JLPT HSK 6
fertile, to irrigate, rich

Left: water 氵, right: early death 夭 (here: sky/heaven 天)
Water from heaven (= the rain) brings fertility.  
JLPT HSK 6
to add, to increase, to replenish
tiān
Top: fertility 沃 (with water 氵from sky, heaven 天), lower right: heart 心
(children are born) With fertility in the heart we will add some.  
JLPT HSK 6
to play music, to achieve, report
zòu
From top: three 三, person 人, sky/heaven 天
The three persons perform 'heaven-like' music.  
JLPT HSK 6
to gather together, pool or collect, happen by chance
còu
Left: ice 冫, right: play music 奏 (Three 三 persons 人 perform 'heaven-like' 天 music.)
On the ice, they play music and people gather together.  
JLPT HSK 6
to toss, to throw dice
zhì
Left: hand 扌, right: serious, solemn 郑 (If the mountain pass 丷 in the sky 天 is closed 关, for the village ⻏ this will be: serious.)
By hand out of 丷 into the sky over the village it was tossed.  
JLPT HSK 6
to lick, to (over-)lap
tiǎn
Left: tongue 舌, right: 忝 (sky/heaven 天, heart 心)
The tongue, that appears like from heaven and (touches) the heart: by licking.  
JLPT HSK 6
to beat up, to break to pieces
zòu
Left: hand 扌, right: make music 奏 (Three 三 persons 人 perform 'heaven-like' 天 music.)
As if "the hand is making music", it is when you are beating up sb.  
JLPT no HSK
silkworm
cán
Top: sky/heaven 天 (= The line 一 above the big 大 person indicates the sky.), bottom: insect 虫
A heavenly insect is: the silkworm!  
JLPT no HSK
arrow, dart, vector
shǐ
Left: a stroke ノ which is seen as an arrow, right: heaven/sky 天 (= The line 一 above the big 大 person indicates the sky.)
The stroke in the sky is an arrow.  
JLPT no HSK
area comprising southern Jiangsu

Top: mouth 口, bottom: sky 天
A mouth above sky in Jiagsu.  
JLPT no HSK
witch, devil, demon, goblin, enchanting
yāo
Left: woman 女, right: early death 夭 (don't mistake with sky 天)
The woman, who brings the early death is a witch.  
JLPT no HSK
coat, jacket, lined winter coat
ǎo
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: early death 夭 (here: heaven/sky 天)
The cloth that is heavenly, is used for the lined coat.  
JLPT no HSK
tall, rangy
qiáo
Top: early death 夭, but here: sky 天, below: long legs 丿|
Sky-long legs make tall.  
JLPT no HSK
sunflower
kuí
Top: plant 艹, bottom: tenth of 10 heavenly trunks 癸 (volcano 癶, sky, heaven 天)
The plant with a flower like a volcano that grows towards the sky is: the sunflower.  
JLPT no HSK
vast and limitless, the vast sky
hào
Top: sun 日, bottom: sky, heaven 天
The sun and the heaven are: vast and limitless.  
JLPT no HSK
separated, stare
kuí
Left: eye 目, right: 癸 (volcano 癶, heaven 天)
The eye sees that the volcano (at the horizon) and the sky are: separated.  

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