天问一号 |
Tiān wèn Yī hào |
Tianwen-1, Chinese mission to put a robotic rover on Mars launched in 2020 |
天 |
tiān |
day / sky / heaven |
天问 |
Tiān wèn |
Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原 / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem |
问 |
wèn |
to ask; to inquire |
一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
一号 |
yī hào |
first day of the month / toilet / (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship) |
号 |
háo |
roar / cry / CL:个 |
号 |
hào |
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people |