每天 (měi tiān) — every day | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

pronoun

every day

Examples

每天。
Wǒ měi tiān zǎo shàng pǎo bù.
I run every morning.
每天。
Tā měi tiān dōu gōng zuò dào hěn wǎn.
He works very late every day.
每天。
Wǒ men měi tiān dōu yào xué xí xīn dōng xī.
We have to learn new things every day.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

每měievery

天tiānday

每 gives every and 天 gives day, so it means each day.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

屮屮chè
母母mǔwoman

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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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

大大dà

Sound part声符shēngfú

丁

丁dīng天tiān

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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