科幻 (kē huàn)

Character breakdown

• 科 (kē) · 9 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the sound and 斗 represents the meaning. Depicts measuring out grain (禾) with a dipper (斗).

• 幻 (huàn) · 4 strokes

  An inversion of 予, "to give"