HSK 6 · Transport

航空 hángkōng “aviation” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 航空 means

  1. aviation

How to say 航空

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale航háng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale空kōng1st tone, high and level

航空 in a sentence

  1. 您寄航空还是海运？

    Nín jì hángkōng háishi hǎiyùn?

    Would you like to send it by airmail or by sea?

    Sentence #6215776 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 航空专家详细分析了统计数据。

    Hángkōng zhuānjiā xiángxì fēnxī le tǒngjì shùjù.

    The aviation expert analysed the statistics in detail.

    Sentence #5576759 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这个航空公司的飞机怎么样？

    Zhè ge hángkōng gōngsī de fēijī zěnmeyàng?

    What are this airline’s planes like?

    Sentence #6159420 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 航空 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 航 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
航hángboat
  • 舟boat · zhōuMeaning part
  • 亢high · kàngSound part

舟 hints at the meaning (boat); 亢 (kàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with háng.

The character 空 (kōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
空kōngempty
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 工work · gōngSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 工 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with kōng.

How to write 航空

航 10 strokes · 空 8 strokes

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航空 (hángkōng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 航空 (hángkōng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 航空

Words with 航

航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight航天hángtiān · spaceflight导航dǎoháng · navigation航行hángxíng · to sail

Words with 空

空调kōngtiáo · air conditioning空kōng · empty填空tiánkòng · to fill in the blanks (on a form or test)空气kōngqì · air空闲kòngxián · free time天空tiānkōng · sky空间kōngjiān · space空想kōngxiǎng · fantasy空洞kōngdòng · empty空虚kōngxū · empty

More words: Everyday Things

动身dòngshēn · to set out港口gǎngkǒu · port观光guānguāng · to go sightseeing轨道guǐdào · orbit航行hángxíng · to sail桨jiǎng · oar舰艇jiàntǐng · naval vessel立交桥lìjiāoqiáo · overpass

FAQs

航空 (hángkōng) means “aviation”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hángkōng: háng with a 2nd tone, then kōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 航空 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hangkong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 航空 from the suggestions. Typing hangkong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
航空 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.