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空间

kōng jiān

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 空間

空间 (kōng jiān) means "space; room". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 空间 means

1. space; room
2. (fig.) scope; leeway
3. astronomyouter space
4. (physics, math.) space

The characters in 空间

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 床占了很多空间。
  The bed took up a lot of space.
• 我需要更多空间。
  I need more room.
• 他踏进了我的空间。
  Tā tàjìn le wǒ de kōngjiān.
  He stepped into my space.
• 你去过外层空间吗？
  Nǐ qù guo wàicéngkōngjiān ma?
  Have you ever been to outer space?
• 这台机器很占空间。
  The machine takes a lot of room.
• 我需要时间和空间。
  I need time and space.

Words starting with 空间

• 空间站kōng jiān zhànspace station
• 空间局kōng jiān júspace agency
• 空间探测kōng jiān tàn cèspace exploration
• 空间探测器kōng jiān tàn cè qìspace probe

Words containing 空间

• 切空间qiē kōng jiānspace of sections (math.)
• 子空间zǐ kōng jiān(math) subspace
• 相空间xiàng kōng jiānphase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
• 向量空间xiàng liàng kōng jiān(math) vector space; linear space
• 线性空间xiàn xìng kōng jiān(math) vector space; linear space
• 电子空间diàn zǐ kōng jiāncyberspace
• 高维空间gāo wéi kōng jiān(math) higher dimensional space
• 国际空间站Guó jì Kōng jiān zhànInternational Space Station
• 语义空间yǔ yì kōng jiānsemantic space
• 位形空间wèi xíng kōng jiānconfiguration space (math.)
• 对称空间duì chèn kōng jiānsymmetric space (math.)
• 网络空间wǎng luò kōng jiāncyberspace
• 超维空间chāo wéi kōng jiānhyperspace; superspace; higher dimensional space
• 众创空间zhòng chuàng kōng jiānhackerspace; hacklab; makerspace
• 外层空间wài céng kōng jiānouter space
• 赛博空间sài bó kōng jiāncyberspace
• 上升空间shàng shēng kōng jiānupside; potential to rise
• 坐标空间zuò biāo kōng jiāncoordinate space
• 轨道空间站guǐ dào kōng jiān zhànorbital space station
• 仿射空间fǎng shè kōng jiān(math) affine space
• 仿射子空间fǎng shè zǐ kōng jiān(math) affine subspace
• 弯曲空间wān qū kōng jiāncurved space
• 拓扑空间tuò pū kōng jiān(math) topological space
• 三维空间sān wéi kōng jiānthree-dimensional space; 3D

Where 空间 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Competition, Fitness & Timing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kōng jiān correctly.
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