空难

空難

kōngnàn

noun HSK 7-9 #19,316

Meanings

1 air crash; aviation disaster
2 plane crash

Characters

sky; air; aviation

disaster; catastrophe

Examples

HSK 5

空难调查通常需要很长时间。

Kōngnàn diàochá tōngcháng xūyào hěn cháng shíjiān.

Air crash investigations usually take a long time.

HSK 6

那场空难造成了数百人死亡。

Nà chǎng kōngnàn zàochéng le shùbǎi rén sǐwáng.

That air disaster caused hundreds of deaths.

Tips

usage

空难 is short for 航空灾难 (aviation disaster). The 空 here means 'air/sky' (as in 天空, 航空), not 'empty.'

Stroke Order

空 kōng

难 nán