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上空 (shàng kōng): meaning and stroke order

上空 (shàng kōng) means the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace, (Tw) topless.

上空

Simplified
上空
Traditional
上空 (same form)
Pinyin
shàng kōng

Stroke order of 上空

上

  • shǎng used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
  • shàng (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts)
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

空

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 上空

  1. shàng kōng
    • the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace
    • (Tw) topless

Radicals of the characters

上
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 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.

上空 in our stories

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  • 那天天气很热。过了不一会儿，一群苍蝇飞了过来，在镰刀上空转了几圈，然后全部落在了其中一把上，怎么赶也赶不走。

    nà tiān tiānqì hěn rè guò le bù yíhuìr yì qún cāngying fēi le guòlai zài liándāo shàngkōng zhuàn le jǐ quān ránhòu quánbù luò zài le qízhōng yì bǎ shàng zěnme gǎn yě gǎn bù zǒu

    It was a hot day. Before long a swarm of flies flew over, circled above the sickles a few times, and then all settled on one of them; nothing could drive them off.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 上空

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).