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Mythic Mandarin

空间 (kōng jiān): meaning and stroke order

空间 (kōng jiān) means space; room, (fig.) scope; leeway, (astronomy) outer space, (physics, math.) space.

空间

Simplified
空间
Traditional
空間
Pinyin
kōng jiān

Stroke order of 空间

空

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

Stroke by stroke

间

  • jiān between; among
  • jiàn gap; to separate
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 間

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 空间

  1. kōng jiān Traditional 空間
    • space; room
    • (fig.) scope; leeway
    • (astronomy) outer space
    • (physics, math.) space

Radicals of the characters

空
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 8 strokes · 穴 on top, 工 below
间
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · built from 门 and 日

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.

空间 in our stories

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  • 她渐渐明白，挪威人的“冷”，其实是一种对别人空间的尊重；而一旦走近，他们的热情一点儿也不少。

    tā jiànjiàn míngbai Nuówēi rén de lěng qíshí shì yì zhǒng duì biérén kōngjiān de zūnzhòng ér yídàn zǒujìn tāmen de rèqíng yìdiǎnr yě bù shǎo

    She gradually understood that Norwegians' "coldness" was really a kind of respect for other people's space, and that once you got close, their warmth was not one bit less.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 空间

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).