天亮

tiānliàng

verb #7,500

Meanings

1 daybreak
2 dawn
3 (for the sky) to become light

Characters

sky; day; heaven

Examples

天亮了，该起床了。

Tiān liàng le, gāi qǐchuáng le.

It's dawn — time to get up.

我们天亮以前就出发了。

Wǒmen tiān liàng yǐqián jiù chūfā le.

We set out before dawn.

夏天天亮得很早。

Xiàtiān tiān liàng de hěn zǎo.

In summer, dawn comes very early.

Tips

grammar

天亮 is a subject-predicate compound (天 is the subject, 亮 is the predicate). Similar patterns: 天黑 (tiānhēi, nightfall), 地震 (dìzhèn, earthquake — 'earth shakes').

Stroke Order

天 tiān

亮 liàng