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航天

hángtiān

spaceflight; aerospace

A rocket lifts off into a dark starry sky
Memory picture

Characters in this word

航 háng

Strokes
10
Radical
舟 — boat, ship
Made of
舟 boat, ship 亢 high, proud
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 航

天 tiān

Strokes
4
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
一 one 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 中国航天事业的发展,离不开长期稳定的基础研究投入。 Zhōngguó hángtiān shìyè de fāzhǎn, lí bù kāi chángqī wěndìng de jīchǔ yánjiū tóurù. The development of China's aerospace enterprise is inseparable from long-term, stable investment in basic research.
  • 他从小就喜欢航天,梦想造火箭。 Tā cóngxiǎo jiù xǐhuan hángtiān, mèngxiǎng zào huǒjiàn. He has loved spaceflight since childhood and dreams of building rockets.
  • 这家航天博物馆里有很多真实的火箭模型。 Zhè jiā hángtiān bówùguǎn lǐ yǒu hěn duō zhēnshí de huǒjiàn móxíng. This aerospace museum has many realistic rocket models.

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