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卫星

wèi xīng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 衛星 Measure word 颗

卫星 (wèi xīng) means "satellite; moon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 卫星 means

1. (aerospace) satellite
2. astronomysatellite; moon

The characters in 卫星

• 卫wèito guard; to protect; to defend
• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite

Example sentences

• 金星没有卫星。
  Jīnxīng méiyǒu wèixīng.
  Venus doesn’t have any moons.
• 木星有几个卫星？
  Mùxīng yǒu jǐge wèixīng?
  How many moons does Jupiter have?
• 那些卫星在哪里？
  Where are the satellites?
• 火星有两个卫星。
  Mars has two moons.
• 火星有两个天然卫星。
  Huǒxīng yǒu liǎng gè tiānrán wèixīng.
  Mars has two natural moons.
• 月球是地球唯一的卫星。
  Yuèqiú shì dìqiú wéiyī de wèixīng.
  The moon is the earth's only satellite.

Words starting with 卫星

• 卫星图wèi xīng túsatellite photo
• 卫星城wèi xīng chéng"satellite" town; edge city; exurb
• 卫星图像wèi xīng tú xiàngsatellite photo
• 卫星电视wèi xīng diàn shìsatellite TV
• 卫星导航wèi xīng dǎo hángsatellite navigation; sat-nav
• 卫星导航系统wèi xīng dǎo háng xì tǒngsatellite navigation system; sat-nav

Words containing 卫星

• 人造卫星rén zào wèi xīngartificial satellite
• 放卫星fàng wèi xīngto launch a satellite; (fig.) (neologism during the Great Leap Forward, c. 1958) to…
• 纳卫星nà wèi xīngnanosatellite
• 同步卫星tóng bù wèi xīng(astronomy) synchronous satellite
• 观测卫星guān cè wèi xīngobservation satellite
• 通信卫星tōng xìn wèi xīngcommunications satellite
• 地球同步卫星dì qiú tóng bù wèi xīng(astronomy) geosynchronous satellite
• 气象卫星qì xiàng wèi xīngweather satellite
• 通讯卫星tōng xùn wèi xīngcommunications satellite
• 静止卫星jìng zhǐ wèi xīng(astronomy) stationary satellite
• 地球静止卫星dì qiú jìng zhǐ wèi xīng(astronomy) geostationary satellite
• 全球卫星导航系统quán qiú wèi xīng dǎo háng xì tǒngGlobalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelinaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System…
• 北斗卫星导航系统Běi Dǒu Wèi xīng Dǎo háng Xì tǒngBeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) (similar to GPS)
• 普列谢茨克卫星发射场Pǔ liè xiè cí kè Wèi xīng Fā shè chǎngPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

Where 卫星 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wèi–wén (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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