明天
míng tiān
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Tomorrow, the day after today. It stands before the verb or at the start of the sentence, and that is enough to place the action in the future, since Chinese verbs have no tenses: 明天见 'see you tomorrow'. The day after tomorrow is 后天.
Ngày mai, tức ngày liền sau hôm nay. Từ này đứng trước động từ hoặc ở đầu câu; cũng như tiếng Việt, động từ không đổi dạng, chỉ cần có 明天 là đủ biết việc thuộc về tương lai: 明天见 (mai gặp nhé). Ngày kia là 后天.
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 “明天” mean?
Tomorrow, the day after today. It stands before the verb or at the start of the sentence, and that is enough to place the action in the future, since Chinese verbs have no tenses: 明天见 'see you tomorrow'. The day after tomorrow is 后天. Literally: bright day
Is “明天” formal or informal?
明天 is generally neutral.