卫星 wèixīng▶ satélite

Stroke order

卫星 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 卫 — 3 strokes
• 星 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. (aerospace) satellite
2. (astronomy) satellite; moon

Related words

• 保卫Defender
• 捍卫defender; guardar
• 零星Esporádico
• 明星Estrella
• 卫生间inodoro, retrete
• 星期semana

卫星 is pronounced wèixīng and means “satélite”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 卫星 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.