撞
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to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 手 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 撞
- Common rank
- #1,546
- Unicode
- U+649E
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
bump into · Heisig RSH #1857
童 juvenile + fingers
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 撞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大型强子对撞机 | Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 火星撞地球 | clash that leaves both sides shattered | |
| 不撞南墙不回头 | to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom) | |
| 撞击式打印机 | (computing) impact printer | |
| 当一天和尚撞一天钟 | 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 | impact printer | |
| 做一天和尚撞一天钟 | lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom); fig. to do one's job mechanically; to… | |
| 撞大运 | to have a lucky stroke; to try one's luck | |
| 对撞机 | a particle collider | |
| 撞运气 | to try one's luck; to rely on fate | |
| 择日不如撞日 | lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom); fi… | |
| 单方过失碰撞 | collision in which only one party is at fault | |
| 横冲直撞 | (idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage | |
| 撞机 | (of an airplane) to collide (with another plane midair); to crash | |
| 撞车 | to crash (into another car); (fig.) (of opinions, schedules etc) to clash; (of subject mat… | |
| 相撞 | collision; crash; to crash together; to collide with; to bump into | |
| 经撞 | shock-resistant | |
| 反撞 | recoil (of a gun) | |
| 撞球 | billiards; billiards ball; pool (game) | |
| 撞死 | to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 童 — compare how they read.