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Mythic Mandarin

高空 (gāo kōng): meaning and stroke order

高空 (gāo kōng) means high altitude.

高空

Simplified
高空
Traditional
高空 (same form)
Pinyin
gāo kōng

Stroke order of 高空

高

  • Gāo surname Gao
  • gāo high; tall
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

空

  • kōng empty; air
  • kòng to empty; vacant
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 高空

  1. gāo kōng
    • high altitude

Radicals of the characters

高
Radical 高 (Kangxi radical 189) · 10 strokes
空
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 8 strokes · 穴 on top, 工 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

高空 in our stories

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  • 精卫在高空回答：“我要一直填下去，直到世界的尽头！”

    Jīngwèi zài gāokōng huídá wǒ yào yìzhí tián xiàqu zhídào shìjiè de jìntóu

    Jingwei answered from high in the air: "I'll keep on filling, until the end of the world!"

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 高空

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).