HSK 6 · Science

航天 hángtiān “spaceflight” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 航天 means

  1. spaceflight
  2. aerospace
  3. space flight

How to say 航天

  • 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天tiān1st tone, high and level

航天 in a sentence

  1. 他的梦想是成为航天航空工程师。

    Tā de mèngxiǎng shì chéngwéi hángtiān hángkōng gōngchéngshī.

    His dream is to become an aerospace engineer.

    Sentence #5145184 from Tatoeba

How 航天 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 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

How to write 航天

航 10 strokes · 天 4 strokes

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

Words related to 航天

Words with 航

航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight导航dǎoháng · navigation航空hángkōng · aviation航行hángxíng · to sail

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter

More words: Science & Technology

更新gēngxīn · to update公式gōngshì · formula固体gùtǐ · solid (matter)故障gùzhàng · fault合成héchéng · to synthesise话筒huàtǒng · microphone火箭huǒjiàn · rocket火药huǒyào · gunpowder

FAQs

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