填空 tiánkòng▶ Mengisi titik-titik

Stroke order

填空 is written in 21 strokes across 2 characters.

• 填 — 13 strokes
• 空 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to fill a job vacancy
2. to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper)

Related words

• 空kosong
• 空气udara
• 天空langit
• 空调Pendingin udara
• 空闲bebas
• 空间ruang

填空 is pronounced tiánkòng and means “Mengisi titik-titik”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 填空 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.