天空
tiānkōng
sky
Characters in this word
空 kōng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 穴 — cave, den, hole
- Made of
- 穴 cave, den, hole 工 labor, work
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 天空很蓝。 Tiān kōng hěn lán. The sky looks very blue.
- 我看天空。 Wǒ kàn tiān kōng. I look at the sky.
- 天空有云。 Tiān kōng yǒu yún. The sky has clouds.