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Chinese symbol for “talented”

天才
tiān cái
talent; gift; genius; talented

The closest CC-CEDICT match for talented is 天才 (tiān cái), defined as: talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted.

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Characters and stroke order

天 tiān
sky, heaven; god, celestial
radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes
才 cái
ability, talent, gift; just, only
radical 64 ⼿ · 3 strokes

Other Chinese words for “talented”

WordPinyinMeaning
俊jùnsmart; eminent
婧jìng(literary) (of a woman) slender; delicate; (literary) (of a woman) talented

Related words

Other words that share a character with 天才.

WordPinyinMeaning
今天jīn tiāntoday; the present time; now
每天měi tiānevery day
明天míng tiāntomorrow
几天 (幾天)jǐ tiānseveral days
昨天zuó tiānyesterday
天下tiān xiàland under heaven; the whole world
才能cái néngtalent; ability
人才rén cáitalent; talented person

See also: Japanese symbol for “talented”.

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.