Tom got here before sunrise.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天亮
to grow light (at daybreak)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to grow light (at daybreak)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天亮 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天亮 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Tom wakes up every three hours during the night, while Mary sleeps all the way through.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天亮.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天亮.
Directly before
- 汤姆天亮1
- 等待天亮1
- 到天亮1
Directly after
- 天亮了1
- 天亮前1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 天亮
What does 天亮 mean in Chinese?
天亮 (tiānliàng) means to grow light (at daybreak).
How do you pronounce 天亮?
天亮 is pronounced tiānliàng.
Is 天亮 an HSK word?
天亮 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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