同一天 (tóng yì tiān) — the same day | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

the same day

同一天。
Wǒ men shì zài tóng yì tiān dào dá de.
We arrived on the same day.
，同一天。
Qiǎo hé de shì, tā men liǎng gè rén de shēng rì jìng rán shì tóng yì tiān.
Coincidentally, the birthdays of those two people are on the same day.
，同一天。
Suī rán wǒ men bú zài tóng yí gè chéng shì, dàn wǒ réng rán huì zài tóng yì tiān gěi tā jì chū lǐ wù.
Although we are not in the same city, I will still send her a gift on the same day.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

同 originally drew a pipe. It is the old form of 筒.

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

丁

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The shape comes from a frontal standing man 大 with a head; 天 pairs 大 with 丁 for sound.

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