Skip to content
Mythic Mandarin

空调 (kōng tiáo): meaning and stroke order

空调 (kōng tiáo) means air conditioning, air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode), 台.

空调

Simplified
空调
Traditional
空調
Pinyin
kōng tiáo

Stroke order of 空调

空

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

Stroke by stroke

调

  • diào to transfer; to move (troops or cadres)
  • tiáo to harmonize; to reconcile
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 調

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 空调

  1. kōng tiáo Traditional 空調
    • air conditioning
    • air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode)
    • CL:臺|台[tai2]

Radicals of the characters

空
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 8 strokes · 穴 on top, 工 below
调
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 讠 on the left, 周 on the right

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.

空调 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 那时候他们穷得连空调都装不起，夏天光着膀子写程序，饿了就泡一碗方便面分着吃。

    nà shíhou tāmen qióng de lián kōngtiáo dōu zhuāng bù qǐ xiàtiān guāng zhe bǎngzi xiě chéngxù è le jiù pào yì wǎn fāngbiànmiàn fēn zhe chī

    Back then they were too poor even for air conditioning. In summer they coded shirtless, and when they were hungry they shared a bowl of instant noodles.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 陶然没有马上表态，而是慢慢地翻着报价单，会议室里一时安静得只剩下空调的声音。

    Táo Rán méiyǒu mǎshàng biǎotài érshì mànmàn de fān zhe bàojiàdān huìyìshì lǐ yìshí ānjìng de zhǐ shèng xià kōngtiáo de shēngyīn

    Tao Ran didn't respond straight away. She slowly leafed through the quote, and for a while the meeting room was so quiet that only the air conditioning could be heard.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • “对着手机做俯卧撑，也算工作？”她怎么也想不通。“银行多好啊，有空调，还不用出汗！”

    duìzhe shǒujī zuò fǔwòchēng yě suàn gōngzuò tā zěnme yě xiǎng bù tōng yínháng duō hǎo a yǒu kōngtiáo hái bú yòng chūhàn

    "Doing push-ups at a phone counts as a job?" She just couldn't understand it. "The bank was so good—air-conditioning, and no sweating!"

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 空调

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).