CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

蓝天

lántiān

blue sky

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

blue sky

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 蓝天 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蓝天 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一朵白云在蓝天上飘。yī duǒ bái yún zài lán tiān shàng piāo。

A white cloud is floating in the blue sky.

关於另一个星球的故事：在一个遥远的星球上，蓝天上有两颗太阳，「盛」与「丽」。一孩童问於其母：「亲爱的母亲啊，为何天中有两个太阳？」其母曰：「此为何等问题？眼睛你有几个？两个。手有几只？两只。」孩童答：「可是母亲，鼻子我只有一个呀⋯⋯」guān yú lìng yí gè xīng qiú de gù shì： zài yí gè yáo yuǎn de xīng qiú shàng， lán tiān shàng yǒu liǎng kē tài yáng，「shèng」 yǔ 「lì」。 yī hái tóng wèn yú qí mǔ：「qīn ài de mǔ qīn a， wèi hé tiān zhōng yǒu liǎng gè tài yáng？」 qí mǔ yuē：「cǐ wèi hé děng wèn tí？ yǎn jīng nǐ yǒu jǐ gè？ liǎng gè。 shǒu yǒu jǐ zhī？ liǎng zhǐ。」 hái tóng dá：「kě shì mǔ qīn， bí zi wǒ zhǐ yǒu yí gè ya ⋯⋯」

A Story on Another Planet: On a faraway planet, there are two suns in the blue sky, Strong and Beauteous. A child asketh the mother, "Dearest mother, why are there two suns in the sky?" Saith the mother, "Oh, what kind of question is that? How many eyes hast thou? 'Tis two. How many hands hast thou? 'Tis two." The child respondeth, "But, mother, I have but one nose..."

视野无限广，窗外有蓝天。shì yě wú xiàn guǎng， chuāng wài yǒu lán tiān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 蓝天.

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

Directly before

在蓝天2
有蓝天1

Directly after

蓝天上2
蓝天的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 蓝天

What does 蓝天 mean in Chinese?

蓝天 (lántiān) means blue sky.

How do you pronounce 蓝天?

蓝天 is pronounced lántiān.

Is 蓝天 an HSK word?

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

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