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天空 (tiān kōng): meaning and stroke order

天空 (tiān kōng) means sky.

天空

Simplified
天空
Traditional
天空 (same form)
Pinyin
tiān kōng

Stroke order of 天空

天

  • tiān day; sky
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

空

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 天空

  1. tiān kōng
    • sky

Radicals of the characters

天
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 大 below
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.

天空 in our stories

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  • 他不知道，不周山是撑着天空的一根柱子。

    tā bù zhīdao Bùzhōu Shān shì chēng zhe tiānkōng de yì gēn zhùzi

    He did not know that Mount Buzhou was one of the pillars holding up the sky.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 岳峰抬头看了看山顶，那里的天空蓝得发黑，近得好像伸手就能摸到。他又低头看了看玛尔塔发紫的嘴唇。

    Yuè Fēng táitóu kàn le kàn shāndǐng nàli de tiānkōng lán de fāhēi jìn de hǎoxiàng shēnshǒu jiù néng mōdào tā yòu dītóu kàn le kàn Mǎ'ěrtǎ fāzǐ de zuǐchún

    Yue Feng looked up at the summit; the sky there was so blue it was almost black, so close it seemed he could touch it. Then he looked down at Marta's purple lips.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 天空

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).