撞

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 童.

Han character

撞 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手卜廿土 (QYTG), four-corner 5001₄, composition ⿰扌童)

1. knock against, bump into, collide

References

• KangXi: page 455, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12717
• Dae Jaweon: page 804, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1961, character 9
• Unihan data for U+649E

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		撞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuàng (zhuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong⁴, zong⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhong
• Min Nan (POJ): chōng / tōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chuang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juanq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong⁴, zong⁶
    • Yale: chòhng, johng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong⁴, dzong⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ²¹/, /t͡sɔːŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhong
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōng / tōng
    • Tâi-lô: tsōng / tōng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔŋ³³/, /tɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ²²/, /tɔŋ²²/

Verb

撞

1. to hit; to bump against; to strike; to run into; to collide

   • 她被車撞了。 [MSC, trad.]

     她被车撞了。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā bèi chē zhuàng le. [Pinyin]

     She was hit by a car.

   • 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Wǒ zài hēiàn zhōng zhuàng shàng le yī bǎ yǐzǐ. [Pinyin]

     In the dark I bumped into a chair.

   • 瓶子撞到了牆上。 [MSC, trad.]

     瓶子撞到了墙上。 [MSC, simp.]

     Píngzǐ zhuàng dào le qiáng shàng. [Pinyin]

     The bottle smashed against a wall.

2. to meet by chance; to bump into; to come across

   • 在碰到你之前，我剛剛撞上他。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Zài pèngdào nǐ zhīqián, wǒ gānggāng zhuàng shàng tā. [Pinyin]

     I just ran into him before I met you.

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Japanese

Kanji

撞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: しゅ (shu), とう (tō), どう (dō)
• Kun: つく (tsuku)

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Korean

Hanja

撞 (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune-Reischauer tang, Yale tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

撞 (chàng, tràng)

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