撞
to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,546 U+649E
How 撞 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 童 (phonetic, tóng)
How to remember it
bump into · Heisig RSH #1857
童 juvenile + fingers
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 童
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 童 (tóng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 童 sound component | tóng | child, boy; servant boy; virgin |
| 潼 | tóng | high, lofty; a mountain pass |
| 瞳 | tóng | the pupil of the eye |
| 幢 | zhuàng | carriage curtain; sun screen; tent; measure word for buildings |
| 憧 | chōng | indecisive, irresolute; to yearn for |
| 艟 | chōng | ancient warship |
| 疃 | tuǎn | hamlet; area near a city |
Words containing 撞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大型强子对撞机 | Dà xíng Qiáng zǐ Duì zhuàng Jī | Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 火星撞地球 | Huǒ xīng zhuàng Dì qiú | clash that leaves both sides shattered |
| 不撞南墙不回头 | bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu | to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom) |
| 撞击式打印机 | zhuàng jī shì dǎ yìn jī | (computing) impact printer |
| 当一天和尚撞一天钟 | dāng yī tiān hé shang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng | see 做一天和尚撞一天鐘|做一天和尚撞一天钟[zuo4 yi1 tian1 he2 shang5 zhuang4 yi1 tian1 zhong1] |
| 撞击式印表机 | zhuàng jī shì yìn biǎo jī | impact printer |
| 做一天和尚撞一天钟 | zuò yī tiān hé shang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng | lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom); fig. to do one's job mechanically; to… |
| 撞大运 | zhuàng dà yùn | to have a lucky stroke; to try one's luck |
| 对撞机 | duì zhuàng jī | a particle collider |
| 撞运气 | zhuàng yùn qi | to try one's luck; to rely on fate |
| 择日不如撞日 | zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì | lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom); fi… |
| 单方过失碰撞 | dān fāng guò shī pèng zhuàng | collision in which only one party is at fault |
| 横冲直撞 | héng chōng zhí zhuàng | (idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage |
| 撞机 | zhuàng jī | (of an airplane) to collide (with another plane midair); to crash |
| 撞车 | zhuàng chē | to crash (into another car); (fig.) (of opinions, schedules etc) to clash; (of subject mat… |
| 相撞 | xiāng zhuàng | collision; crash; to crash together; to collide with; to bump into |
| 经撞 | jīng zhuàng | shock-resistant |
| 反撞 | fǎn zhuàng | recoil (of a gun) |
| 撞球 | zhuàng qiú | billiards; billiards ball; pool (game) |
| 撞死 | zhuàng sǐ | to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc) |