一天

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	day; sky; heaven
simp. and trad. (一天)		一	天

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yītiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄊㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ tin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yītiān [Phonetic: yìtiān]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄊㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yitian
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-tʻien¹
    • Yale: yī-tyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: itian
    • Palladius: итянь (itjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ tin¹
    • Yale: yāt tīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ tin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ tin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 一天

1. one day (twenty-four hours)

   • 中國農民有很大的潛伏力，只要組織和指揮得當，能使日本軍隊一天忙碌二十四小時，使之疲於奔命。 [MSC, trad.]
     中国农民有很大的潜伏力，只要组织和指挥得当，能使日本军队一天忙碌二十四小时，使之疲于奔命。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhōngguó nóngmín yǒu hěn dà de qiánfúlì, zhǐyào zǔzhī hé zhǐhuī dédàng, néng shǐ Rìběn jūnduì yītiān mánglù èrshísì xiǎoshí, shǐ zhī píyúbēnmìng. [Pinyin]

     The Chinese peasants have very great latent power; properly organized and directed, they can keep the Japanese army busy twenty-four hours a day and worry it to death.

2. the entire daytime of one day

   幹了一天／干了一天  ―  gàn le yītiān  ―  worked for a whole day

3. someday; one day

   總有一天／总有一天  ―  zǒng yǒu yītiān  ―  there will be a day (when ...)

4. (colloquial) the whole day

Synonyms

• 一日 (yīrì)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
一	天
いつ > いっ Grade: 1	てん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

一(いっ)天(てん) • (itten) 

1. the whole sky; firmament