Chinese symbol for “occasions”

天次

tiān cì

number of days of sth taking place (e.g. days of heavy pollution); days; occasions

The closest CC-CEDICT match for occasions is 天次 (tiān cì), defined as: number of days of sth taking place (e.g. days of heavy pollution); days; occasions.

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Characters and stroke order

天 tiān

sky, heaven; god, celestial

radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes

次 cì

order, sequence; second, next; one after the other

radical 76 ⽋ · 6 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 天次.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
今天	jīn tiān	today; the present time; now
每天	měi tiān	every day
明天	míng tiān	tomorrow
几天 (幾天)	jǐ tiān	several days
昨天	zuó tiān	yesterday
天下	tiān xià	land under heaven; the whole world
一次	yī cì	first; first time
第一次	dì yī cì	the first time; for the first time

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.