太 tài
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
太空
tàikōng
space
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
- 太空很远。 Tàikōng hěn yuǎn. Space is very far away.
- 他爱太空。 Tā ài tàikōng. He loves space.
- 梦到太空。 Mèng dào tàikōng. I dream about space.