# 航天员 (hángtiānyuán)

In Mandarin Chinese, 航天员 (hángtiānyuán) means “astronaut”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: astronaut
- Pinyin: hángtiānyuán (hang2 tian1 yuan2)
- Traditional: 航天員
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 航天员在太空中做实验。
  Hángtiānyuán zài tàikōng zhōng zuò shíyàn.
  The astronauts are doing experiments in space.

## Characters

- 航 (háng): boat; ship
- [天](https://hanziro.com/word/tian-day/) (tiān): day; sky
- [员](https://hanziro.com/word/yuan-member/) (yuán): member; person working in a field

https://hanziro.com/word/hang-tian-yuan-astronaut/

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