天哪
tiān na
Pinyin

Definition

天哪
 - 
tiān na
  1. Good gracious!
  2. For goodness sake!

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
哪
nǎ
  1. 1 how
  2. 2 which
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule
天天
tiān tiān
  1. 1 every day

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

天哪…杀了我吧……（自言自语）
tiānnǎ …shā le wǒ ba ……（zìyánzìyǔ ）
... Good gosh... Kill me now... (Talking to herself)
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我的天哪，你是有多么地根红苗正啊。不过我也是，就是那个在下面喊口号的，“时刻准备着，为了共产主义事业而奋斗！”
wǒ de tiānnǎ ，nǐ shì yǒu duōme de gēnhóngmiáozhèng ā 。bùguò wǒ yě shì ，jiùshì nàge zàixiàmiàn hǎn kǒuhào de ，“shíkè zhǔnbèi zhe ，wèile gòngchǎnzhǔyì shìyè ér fèndòu ！”
My gosh, you really are a good communist through and through. But I am too, I was the one calling out the slogans under the flag, "Ready at any moment, to struggle in the Communist project."
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天哪！这张飞机上的日全食照片是你拍的吗？
tiānnǎ ！zhè zhāng fēijī shàng de rìquánshí zhàopiàn shì nǐ pāi de ma ？
Gosh! Did you take this photograph of a total solar eclipse on a plane?
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什么？！快拿过来给我看看！天哪，我什么时候刷过这么多钱啊？
shénme ？！kuài ná guòlái gěi wǒ kànkan ！tiānna ，wǒ shénmeshíhou shuā guo zhème duō qián ā ？
What? Quick, let me see that! My god! When did I spend so much money?
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天哪，我看你还是别减肥了。
tiān na ，wǒ kàn nǐ háishì bié jiǎnféi le 。
Good lord! I think you should stop trying to lose weight.
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天哪，他还要吃，我们快走吧。
tiān na ，tā hái yào chī ，wǒmen kuài zǒu ba 。
Ugh, he’s still eating. Let’s leave.
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天哪，人真多！
tiān na ，rén zhēn duō ！
Oh gosh, that's a lot of people!
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他又开始打鼓了！嗯？天哪，那是什么声音？
tā yòu kāishǐ dǎgǔ le ！ng4 ？tiānna ，nà shì shénme shēngyīn ？
He's playing the drums again! Huh? Oh, gosh. What's that sound?
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很有可能。他们的大脑肯定是被植入了电脑芯片！麒麟人已经把他们变成自己的奴隶了。天哪！斯琴，那我爸爸和你哥哥大概就在这些人中间。太可怜了！怎么办？　
hěn yǒu kěnéng 。tāmen de dànǎo kěndìng shì bèi zhírù le diànnǎo xìnpiàn ！qílínrén yǐjīng bǎ tāmen biànchéng zìjǐ de núlì le 。tiānnǎ ！Sīqín ，nà wǒ bàba hé nǐ gēge dàgài jiù zài zhèxiērén zhōngjiān 。tài kělián le ！zěnme bàn ？　
It's very possible. They've definitely had computer chips implanted in their brains! The Kirin-men have turned them into their slaves. Oh, man! Siqin, my dad and your brother must be with these people. What a shame! What can we do?
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