Today is a cloudy day.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
阴天
cloudy day; overcast sky
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cloudy day; overcast sky
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 阴天 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 阴天 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tomorrow will not be cloudy.
Was it cloudy in Tokyo yesterday?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 阴天.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 阴天.
Directly before
- 是阴天1
- 个阴天1
- 不是阴天1
Directly after
- 阴天吗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 阴天
What does 阴天 mean in Chinese?
阴天 (yīntiān) means cloudy day; overcast sky.
How do you pronounce 阴天?
阴天 is pronounced yīntiān.
Is 阴天 an HSK word?
阴天 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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