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填空

tiánkòng

to fill in blanks

A person completing a puzzle gap
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Characters in this word

填 tián

Strokes
13
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 真 real, actual, true, genuine
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

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

  • 请做填空题。 Qǐng zuò tiánkòng tí. Please do the fill in the blank questions.
  • 这个填空很难。 Zhège tiánkòng hěn nán. This blank is hard to fill.
  • 我们练填空。 Wǒmen liàn tiánkòng. We practice filling in blanks.

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