空气 kōngqì

HSK level

Traditional form

空氣

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

空 kōng

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 xué represents the meaning and 工 gōng represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

工 gōng

Semantic compound

穴 xué

Positional decomposition

⿱穴工

Number of Strokes

气 qì

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of air.

Positional decomposition

⿱亻 rén ？

Number of Strokes

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我们 wǒmen 离开 líkāi 地面 dì miàn 越 Yuè 高 Gāo , 空气 kōngqì 越 Yuè 稀薄 xī bó .

The higher we go above the earth, the thinner the air is.

烟 yān 屑 xiè 污染 wūrǎn 空气 kōngqì .

Soot fouls the air.

我 wǒ 快 kuài 给 gěi 憋 biē 死 sǐ 了 le , 咱们 zámen 换换空气 kōngqì 去 qù .

I'm choking to death. Let's get some air.

夕阳西下 xī yáng xī xià 时 shí ,空气 kōngqì 变 biàn 冷 Lěng 了 le ,天空 tiānkōng 布满 bù mǎn 了 le 云 yún .

Just at sunset the air turned cold and the sky cloudy.

戴维住 zhù 在 zài 空气 kōngqì 很 hěn 干净 gānjìng 的 de 东 Dōng 角 Jué 地区 dìqū .

David lives in East Point with very clean air.

See the 3 Chinese characters that make up 空气 kōngqì and their own compounds.

空 kōng

穴 xué

八 bā , 宀 gài

工 gōng

气 qì

See all 66 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 空气 kōngqì in their composition.

空 kōng

控 kòng , 腔 qiāng , 椌 qiāng , 倥 kōng , 崆 kōng , 悾 kōng , 曌 Zhào , 焢 hōng , 箜 kōng , 鞚 kòng , 啌, 埪, 涳, 瞾, 硿, 羫, 聜, 谾, 躻, 鵼

气 qì

氣 qì

滊 xì , 愾 kài , 暣, 熂, 犔, 鎎, 霼, 靝, 餼 xì

汽 qì , 氧 yǎng , 氛 fēn , 氯 lǜ , 氢 qīng , 氪 kè , 氨 ān , 氮 dàn , 氰 qíng , 氟 fú , 氦 hài , 氩 yà , 氖 nǎi , 氙 xiān , 氡 dōng , 氚 chuān , 忾 kài , 氤 yīn , 氲 yūn , 氕 piē , 気 qì , 氘 dāo , 氜 yáng , 氝 nèi , 氥 xī , 芞 qì , 靔 tiān , 饩 xì , 刏, 忥, 氞, 氠 shēn , 氫 qīng , 氬, 氭, 氱, 氳 yūn