Chinese symbol for “rooftop”
天台
tiān tái
Traditional: 天臺
rooftop
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rooftop is 天台 (tiān tái), defined as: rooftop.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “rooftop”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 天台.
| 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 |
| 平台 (平臺) | píng tái | platform; terrace |
| 电视台 (電視台) | diàn shì tái | television station |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rooftop”.
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.