Example sentences
míng明tiān天jiàn见。
See you tomorrow.
míng明tiān天huì会xià下yǔ雨ma吗？
Will it rain tomorrow?
The story behind the character
明
日 (sun) plus 月 (moon). Sun and moon together, that's bright. Xu Shen wrote 明, 照也. No hidden story. Just the most direct compound there is: sun plus moon equals bright.
天
大 is a person with arms spread. Add one stroke on top and you get 天. The space above a person's head. So it didn't start as "sky," it started as "the top of your head." Only later did it climb up to mean heaven.