CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天际

tiānjì

horizon

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

horizon

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天际 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天际 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

今夜，星光燃亮天际。jīn yè， xīng guāng rán liàng tiān jì。

The heavens are bright with stars tonight.

於是那欢快的小男孩们四处游荡，/ 如此喜悦地穿越山丘与山谷，/ 蔷薇的芬芳穿过荆棘丛 / 将随温柔的夏风飘散：/ 每个清晨，大自然含笑赐予，/ 那贫苦卑微的农夫也得一份，/ 云雀从草丛中振翅而上，/ 将悠扬的音符送向天际。yú shì nà huān kuài de xiǎo nán hái men sì chù yóu dàng，/ rú cǐ xǐ yuè dì chuān yuè shān qiū yǔ shān gǔ，/ qiáng wēi de fēn fāng chuān guò jīng jí cóng / jiāng suí wēn róu de xià fēng piāo sàn：/ měi gè qīng chén， dà zì rán hán xiào cì yǔ，/ nà pín kǔ bēi wēi de nóng fū yě dé yī fèn，/ yún què cóng cǎo cóng zhōng zhèn chì ér shàng，/ jiāng yōu yáng de yīn fú sòng xiàng tiān jì。

Then the merry little boys they will ramble, / So gleesome, o’er mountain and dale, / Where the sweets of the rose through the bramble / Will be blown by the mild summer gale: / Then a share of Nature’s smiles each morning / To the poor humble peasant will be given. / While the lark from his covert he is soaring, / His musical notes to the heaven.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天际.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天际.

Directly before

燃亮天际1
向天际1

Directly after

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

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 天际

What does 天际 mean in Chinese?

天际 (tiānjì) means horizon.

How do you pronounce 天际?

天际 is pronounced tiānjì.

Is 天际 an HSK word?

天际 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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