撞

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		撞
alternative forms		搪 (tn̄g) Min Nan 衝／冲 (chhēng) Min Nan

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 撞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
撞	*rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢	*rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦	*rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇	*rdoːŋ
𩪘	*rdoːŋ
艟	*rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧	*rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽	*tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董	*toːŋʔ
蕫	*toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽	*toːŋʔ
懂	*toːŋʔ
湩	*toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈	*tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童	*doːŋ
僮	*doːŋ
瞳	*doːŋ
罿	*doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝	*doːŋ
潼	*doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜	*doːŋ, *doŋ
動	*doːŋʔ
慟	*doːŋs
堹	*toŋs
諥	*toŋs
蹱	*tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重	*doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟	*doŋ, *doŋs
蝩	*doŋ
褈	*doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘	*tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾	*tjoŋ
籦	*tjoŋ
種	*tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫	*tjoŋʔ
踵	*tjoŋʔ
歱	*tjoŋʔ
喠	*tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅	*tjoŋs
衝	*tʰjoŋ
揰	*tʰjoŋs
尰	*djoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 童 (OC *doːŋ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 撞

1. to hit; to bump against; to strike; to run into; to collide
   • 她被車撞了。／她被车撞了。  ―  Tā bèi chē zhuàng le.  ―  She was hit by a car.

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

     Wǒ zài hēi'àn 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.

   • 佢喺公園撞穿咗個頭。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     佢喺公园撞穿咗个头。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     keoi⁵ hai² gung¹ jyun^4-2 zong⁶ cyun¹ zo² go³ tau⁴. [Jyutping]

     He bumped and injured his head at the park.

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

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

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

     I just ran into him before I met you.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

撞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: つく (tsuku, 撞く)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 撞 (chàng, tràng)

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