| 花天酒地 | huā tiān jiǔ dì | to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures; life of debauchery |
| 万恶滔天 | wàn è tāo tiān | so much evil that it reaches all the way to heaven (idiom) |
| 万维天罗地网 | wàn wéi tiān luó dì wǎng | World Wide Web (WWW); lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth |
| 融雪天气 | róng xuě tiān qì | a thaw |
| 詹天佑 | Zhān Tiān yòu | Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer |
| 谈天说地 | tán tiān shuō dì | to talk endlessly; talking of anything under the sun |
谋事在人, 成事在天 | móu shì zài rén , chéng shì zài tiān | planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes. |
| 谢天谢地 | xiè tiān xiè dì | Thank heavens!; Thank goodness that's worked out so well! |
| 变天 | biàn tiān | to undergo change in weather; restoration of reactionary rule or the previous regime |
| 转浑天仪 | zhuàn hún tiān yí | armillary sphere (astronomy) |
| 辩才天 | biàn cái tiān | Saraswati (the Hindu goddess of wisdom and arts and consort of Lord Brahma) |
| 逃税天堂 | táo shuì tiān táng | tax haven |
| 这天 | zhè tiān | today; this day |
| 这几天 | zhè jǐ tiān | the past few days |
| 通天彻地 | tōng tiān chè dì | to know all under heaven; exceptionally talented (idiom) |
| 进了天堂 | jìn le tiān táng | to die; to enter the hall of heaven |
| 过街天桥 | guò jiē tiān qiáo | skywalk; pedestrian bridge |
| 违天害理 | wéi tiān hài lǐ | lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character |
| 违天逆理 | wéi tiān nì lǐ | lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character |
| 远天 | yuǎn tiān | heaven; the distant sky |
| 遮天蔽日 | zhē tiān bì rì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent; of universal importance |
| 那天 | nà tiān | that day; the other day |
| 重睹天日 | chóng dǔ tiān rì | to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression |
| 重见天日 | chóng jiàn tiān rì | to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression |
| 野天鹅 | yě tiān é | Wild Swans, family autobiography by British Chinese writer Jung Chang 张戎; alternative title 鸿 after the author's original name 张二鸿 |
| 金天翮 | Jīn Tiān hé | Jin Tianhe (1874-1947), late Qing poet and novelist, author of Flower in the sea of evil 孽海花 |
| 铺天盖地 | pū tiān gài dì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent; of universal importance |
| 长白山天池 | Cháng bái shān tiān chí | Changbaishan Tianchi, volcanic lake in Jilin province |
| 开天窗 | kāi tiān chuāng | to leave a blank to mark censored area |
| 开天避地 | kāi tiān bì dì | to open the sky and divide the earth; ref. to Pangu 盘古 in the Chinese creation myth |
| 闲聊天 | xián liáo tiān | to chat; idle gossip |
| 隔天 | gé tiān | the next day; on alternate days |
| 鸡犬升天 | jī quǎn shēng tiān | lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom); fig. to ride on sb else's success; Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too; Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it |
| 难于登天 | nán yú dēng tiān | hard a climbing to heaven (idiom); a tremendous effort |
| 雨过天晴 | yǔ guò tiān qíng | sky clears after rain; new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom); every cloud has a silver lining (idiom); see also 雨过天青 |
| 雨过天青 | yǔ guò tiān qīng | sky clears after rain; new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom); every cloud has a silver lining (idiom); see also 雨过天晴 |
| 雷达天线 | léi dá tiān xiàn | radar antenna |
| 震天动地 | zhèn tiān dòng dì | to shake heaven and earth (idiom) |
| 霜天 | shuāng tiān | freezing weather; frosty sky |
| 露天堆栈 | lù tiān duī zhàn | open-air repository; open-air depot |
| 露天大戏院 | lù tiān dà xì yuàn | open-air amphitheatre |
| 露天宿营 | lù tiān sù yíng | camping in the open; living outdoors |
| 青天大老爷 | qīng tiān dà lǎo ye | Grandpa in the clear sky; God |
| 青天霹雳 | qīng tiān pī lì | thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue |
| 面朝黄土背朝天 | miàn cháo huáng tǔ bèi cháo tiān | face to the ground, back to the sky |
| 顺应天时 | shùn yìng tiān shí | going with nature and the seasons (traditional Chinese medicine concept) |
| 颐养天年 | yí yǎng tiān nián | to care for oneself for one's allotted life span (idiom); to retire |
| 头半天 | tóu bàn tiān | morning; first half of the day |
| 头半天儿 | tóu bàn tiānr | erhua variant of 头半天, morning; first half of the day |
| 马天尼 | Mǎ tiān ní | Martini |