Chinese symbol for “today”
今天
jīn tiān
today; the present time; now
The closest CC-CEDICT match for today is 今天 (jīn tiān), defined as: today; the present time; now.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “today”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 今儿 (今兒) | jīn r | (coll.) today |
| 今儿个 (今兒個) | jīn r ge | (coll.) today |
| 本日 | běn rì | today |
| 今朝 | jīn zhāo | (dialect) today; (literary) the present; this age |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 今天.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 至今 | zhì jīn | so far; to this day |
| 如今 | rú jīn | nowadays; now |
| 今晚 | jīn wǎn | tonight |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
| 明天 | míng tiān | tomorrow |
| 几天 (幾天) | jǐ tiān | several days |
See also: Japanese symbol for “today”.
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.