The Chinese word for today is
今天
jīntiān
Translations for today and their definitions
| 今天 | |
| 1. n. today | |
| 你 今天 好像 不 太 高興xìng。 - You don't look very happy today. | |
| 今天 是 星期一，對 吧？ - It's Monday today, isn't it? | |
| 你 今天 有空kòng 幫 個 忙 嗎？ - Would you have time today to help me with something? | |
| 2. n. nowadays; the present time | |
| 3. usage. In Cantonese (m, zh, 今天) is formal. |
| 今日 | |
| 1. n. (formal or dialectal) today | |
| 今日 我 去 咗 行山。 - I went hiking today. | |
| 2. n. (formal or dialectal) nowadays; the present time | |
| 3. usage. 今日 is considered formal in Standard Mandarin. |
| 今兒 | |
| 1. n. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin) today |
| 今儿 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 今兒 |
| 今兒個 | |
| 1. adv. (Mandarin, colloquial) today |
| 今儿个 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 今兒個 |
| 現代 | |
| 1. n. modern times | |
| 2. adj. (attributive) modern; contemporary | |
| 現代 生活 - modern life | |
| 現代 文學 - modern literature | |
| 現代 科學 - modern science | |
| 現代 觀念 - modern ideology | |
| 現代 史 - modern history |
| 现代 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 現代 |
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