今天
jīn tiān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Today, the present day. To give the date or the day of the week you can leave out 是: 今天星期一 'today is Monday', 今天二号 'today is the second'. The questions are 今天星期几 'what day is it today?' and 今天几号 'what is the date today?'.
Hôm nay, ngày hôm nay. Khi nói thứ hoặc ngày tháng, có thể bỏ 是, giống như tiếng Việt bỏ “là”: 今天星期一 (hôm nay thứ hai), 今天二号 (hôm nay mùng hai). Câu hỏi tương ứng là 今天星期几 (hôm nay thứ mấy?) và 今天几号 (hôm nay ngày mấy?).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “今天” mean?
Today, the present day. To give the date or the day of the week you can leave out 是: 今天星期一 'today is Monday', 今天二号 'today is the second'. The questions are 今天星期几 'what day is it today?' and 今天几号 'what is the date today?'. Literally: present day
Is “今天” formal or informal?
今天 is generally neutral.