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Chinese symbol for “spacecraft”

航天器
háng tiān qì
spacecraft

The closest CC-CEDICT match for spacecraft is 航天器 (háng tiān qì), defined as: spacecraft.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

航 háng
vessel, craft; to sail, to navigate
radical 137 ⾈ · 10 strokes
天 tiān
sky, heaven; god, celestial
radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes
器 qì
device, instrument, tool; receptacle, vessel
radical 30 ⼝ · 16 strokes

Other Chinese words for “spacecraft”

WordPinyinMeaning
宇宙飞船 (宇宙飛船)yǔ zhòu fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft
飞船 (飛船)fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft
太空飞船 (太空飛船)tài kōng fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft

Related words

Other words that share a character with 航天器.

WordPinyinMeaning
航空háng kōngaviation
航班háng bān(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
航线 (航線)háng xiànair or shipping route
航空公司háng kōng gōng sīairline; measure word: 家 (jiā)
导航 (導航)dǎo háng(lit. and fig.) to navigate
航天háng tiānspace flight
今天jīn tiāntoday; the present time; now
每天měi tiānevery day
武器wǔ qìweapon; arms

See also: Japanese symbol for “spacecraft”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.