宇宙
HSK 7freq #3871
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.universe; cosmos; space
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Wiktionary
- 1.universe; cosmos; macrocosm; space
- 2.roof, ridgepole and beams (of a house)
- 3.heaven and earth; all under heaven; country
- 4.space and time
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Etymology
Attested in several pre-Qin texts. Meyer (2010) proposes that "eaves and roof beams" was a synecdoche for a domicile's entire space; this figure of speech would later be appropriated by early authors and later Huainanziʼs contributors as "a metaphor for the cosmos, taking “eaves” [宇] and “roof beams” [宙] to represent the dimensions of space and time[, respectively] that compose the entire phenomenal universe."
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Characters
Example sentences
宇宙浩瀚無邊。
The universe is limitless.
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Derived terms
元宇宙多元宇宙大宇宙宇宙人宇宙塵宇宙尘宇宙大爆炸宇宙學宇宙学宇宙射線宇宙射线宇宙年宇宙火箭宇宙空間宇宙空间宇宙站宇宙線宇宙线宇宙航行宇宙觀宇宙观宇宙論宇宙论宇宙通信宇宙速度宇宙鋒宇宙锋宇宙飛船宇宙飞船封閉宇宙學說
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Related words
宇宙号 Kosmos, series of earth-orbit satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia宇宙线 cosmic ray宇宙学 cosmology宇宙观 world view; conception of the universe元宇宙 (computing) metaverse宇宙飞船 spaceship; spacecraft宇宙射线 cosmic ray多元宇宙 multiverse (cosmology)宇宙速度 escape velocity平行宇宙 parallel universe