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| Explanation: sky ; heaven |
| 天气 weather 天然 natural |
这个字最初是一个没有头部的身体，后来加上一头部（ ）变成了“天”。“天”主宰宇宙万物，地位至高无上；因此以“一”、“大”组成的“天”，就说明了一切事物中最大的便是“天”。
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（ ） represented the form of man, but it was only a body without the head. Then a “head” was added above the space of the body and it became . So originally, indicated “the head” of a man’s body. At the beginning this “head” was as round as a ball, but later it gradually became flat, and finally it became a horizontal stroke like in the modern version. As the growing light of the sky brings in the dawn of the day, 天also came to mean “day”.
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