撞

撞	U+649E, 撞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-649E

← 撝
[U+649D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

撟 →
[U+649F]

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		撞
2nd round simp.		𢬂
alternative forms		創／创 dialect 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).

Etymology

See 衝 (OC *tʰjoŋ, “to dash, clash”), with which it may share etymological origins (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuàng, chuàng, chuáng (zhuang⁴, chuang⁴, chuang²)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤˋ, ㄔㄨㄤˋ, ㄔㄨㄤˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): zong⁶ / cong⁴

(Taishan, Wiktionary): zong⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhong

(Hailu, HRS): cong^˖
Eastern Min (BUC): dâung
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dorng⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tōng / chōng / tn̄g / chhēng

(Teochew, Peng'im): zuang⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zaon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhuàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhuàng
  - Wade–Giles: chuang⁴
  - Yale: jwàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juanq
  - Palladius: чжуан (čžuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, regional)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chuàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chuàng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻuang⁴
  - Yale: chwàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanq
  - Palladius: чуан (čuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, literary variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chuáng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄤˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chuáng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻuang²
  - Yale: chwáng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwang
  - Palladius: чуан (čuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ³⁵/

Note: chuàng – used colloquially for sense "to collide" as a standalone word (not used to build a compound word). Commonly written phonetically as 創 / 创 in informal environments such as social media.

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zong⁶ / cong⁴
  - Yale: johng / chòhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzong⁶ / tsong⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: zong⁶ / cong⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ²²/, /t͡sʰɔːŋ²¹/

Note: cong4 - rare.

- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: zong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ³²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhong
  - Hakka Romanization System: cong
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cong⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: cong^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ³³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dâung
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑuŋ²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dorng⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dō̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɒŋ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dorng⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɒŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōng
  - Tâi-lô: tōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dong
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōng
  - Tâi-lô: tsōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zong
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tn̄g
  - Tâi-lô: tn̄g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tŋ̍²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tŋ̍³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tŋ̍⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhēng
  - Tâi-lô: tshīng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zheng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɪŋ²²/

Note:

tōng, chōng - literary;
tn̄g/chhēng - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: zuang⁶
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsuăng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suaŋ³⁵/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zaon
  - MiniDict: zaon^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zaan
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zɑ̃²³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 撞
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂuɑŋ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ⁵³/ /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡suɑŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂuaŋ²¹/
	Qingdao	/ʈ͡ʂuaŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂuaŋ³¹²/ ～車 /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ³¹²/ ～著人了
	Xi'an	/p͡fʰaŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɔ̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fʰɑ̃¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡suaŋ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡suaŋ¹³/ /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵³/
	Guiyang	/t͡suaŋ²¹³/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂuã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ⁴⁴/ /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɑ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡sʰuɒ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/t͡suɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/zɑ̃²³/
	Suzhou	/zɑ̃³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩ʷɑŋ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑyɔ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰo²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡sau¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕyan¹¹/ ～鐘 /t͡ɕʰyan⁴¹/ ～數
Xiang	Xiangtan	/d͡zɔn²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰɔŋ²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sɔŋ³³/
	Nanning	/t͡sɔŋ²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sɔŋ³³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/tɔŋ³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tɔuŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tɔŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡suaŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡siaŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: draewng, draewngH

Rime
Character	撞	撞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	江 (9)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	宅江切	直絳切
Baxter	draewng	draewngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠʌŋ/	/ɖˠʌŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚɔŋ/	/ɖᵚɔŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡɔŋ/	/ȡɔŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖaɨwŋ/	/ɖaɨwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ȡɔŋ/	/ȡɔŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ȡɔŋ/	/ȡɔŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱɔŋ/	/ȡʱɔŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuáng	zhuàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong⁴	zong⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ/, /*N-tˤ<r>oŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*rdoːŋ/, /*rdoːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	撞	撞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuáng	zhuàng
Middle Chinese	‹ dræwng ›	‹ dræwng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-t]ˁ<r>oŋ/	/*N-tˁ<r>oŋ-s/
English	strike	strike
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	撞	撞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17421	17426
Phonetic component	重	重
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	幢	䡴
Old Chinese	/*rdoːŋ/	/*rdoːŋs/

Definitions

撞

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.]
Píngzi zhuàng dào le qiáng shàng. [Pinyin]
The bottle smashed against a wall.

佢喺條街到撞到條燈柱。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢喺条街到撞到条灯柱。 [Cantonese, simp.]
keoi⁵ hai² tiu⁴ gaai¹ dou³ zong⁶ dou^3-2 tiu⁴ dang¹ cyu⁵. [Jyutping]
He bumped into a lamppost on the street.
to rush
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.
(of events) to clash; to coincide
撞咗時間／撞咗时间 [Cantonese] ― zong⁶ zo² si⁴ gaan³ [Jyutping] ― to have a time clash
to coincide
撞名 [Cantonese] ― zong⁶ meng^4-2 [Jyutping] ― to share the same name
(Cantonese) to guess (clarification of this definition is needed)
撞密碼／撞密码 [Cantonese] ― zong⁶ mat⁶ maa⁵ [Jyutping] ― to guess a password by bruteforce

Synonyms

(to collide):

Dialectal synonyms of 撞 (“to collide”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		撞
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	撞
	Taiwan	撞
	Malaysia	撞
	Singapore	撞
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	碰, 撞
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	撞
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	撞
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	闖, 擂
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	撞
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	撞, 鏨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	撞
	Hong Kong	撞
	Yangjiang	揰, 撞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	撞
Gan	Nanchang	鄧, 撞
Hakka	Meixian	撞
Jin	Taiyuan	撞, 碰
Northern Min	Jian'ou	摏
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	㨂, 碰
Southern Min	Xiamen	衝, 挵
	Quanzhou	衝, 挵
	Zhangzhou	衝, 挵
	Tainan	衝, 挵
	Penang (Hokkien)	挵
	Singapore (Hokkien)	挵
	Manila (Hokkien)	衝, 挵
	Chaozhou	撞
	Singapore (Teochew)	撞, 挵
Wu	Suzhou	撞
Wu	Wenzhou	撞
Xiang	Changsha	撞, 摜
Xiang	Shuangfeng	撞

(to rush): 猛沖／猛冲 (měngchōng)
(to encounter):

Dialectal synonyms of 遇 (“to encounter”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		遇, 碰, 遭
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	遇, 碰
	Malaysia	遇, 碰
	Singapore	遇, 碰
Cantonese	Guangzhou	遇, 撞
	Hong Kong	遇, 撞
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	遇, 撞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	遇
Hakka	Meixian	遇, 撞
Southern Min	Xiamen	拄, 撞, 衝, 磅
	Quanzhou	拄, 撞, 衝
	Zhangzhou	拄, 衝
	Tainan	拄, 撞, 磅
	Penang (Hokkien)	拄
	Singapore (Hokkien)	拄
	Manila (Hokkien)	拄, 遇
	Chaozhou	遇, 堵
	Shantou	遇
	Jieyang	遇, 堵
	Singapore (Teochew)	堵
Wu	Shanghai	碰

Compounds

一衝一撞 / 一冲一撞
一頭撞死 / 一头撞死
七跌八撞
亂撞 / 乱撞
以莛撞鐘 / 以莛撞钟
冒撞
反撞力
帶球撞人 / 带球撞人
打胸廝撞 / 打胸厮撞
招搖撞騙 / 招摇撞骗 (zhāoyáozhuàngpiàn)
挺撞
推撞 (tuīzhuàng)
撞傷 / 撞伤
撞凌
撞喪 / 撞丧
撞天婚
撞天屈
撞太歲 / 撞太岁
撞客
撞屍 / 撞尸
撞席
撞府沖州 / 撞府冲州
撞府穿州
撞心拳
撞擊 / 撞击 (zhuàngjī)
撞擾 / 撞扰
撞族
撞木鐘 / 撞木钟
撞牆 / 撞墙 (zhuàngqiáng)
撞牆期 / 撞墙期
撞球 (zhuàngqiú)
撞破 (zhuàngpò)
撞碼頭 / 撞码头
撞禍 / 撞祸 (zhuànghuò)
撞籌 / 撞筹
撞見 / 撞见 (zhuàngjiàn)
撞警鐘 / 撞警钟
撞跌
撞車 / 撞车 (zhuàngchē)
撞針 / 撞针 (zhuàngzhēn)
撞釘子 / 撞钉子
撞鐘太歲 / 撞钟太岁
撞門羊 / 撞门羊
撞陣衝軍 / 撞阵冲军
撞頭搕腦 / 撞头搕脑
撞騙 / 撞骗 (zhuàngpiàn)
擦撞
東奔西撞 / 东奔西撞
東挨西撞 / 东挨西撞
東碰西撞 / 东碰西撞
東穿西撞 / 东穿西撞
東走西撞 / 东走西撞
橫行直撞 / 横行直撞 (héngxíngzhízhuàng)
橫衝直撞 / 横冲直撞 (héngchōngzhízhuàng)
沖撞 / 冲撞 (chōngzhuàng)
白撞
白日撞
瞎撞
碰撞 (pèngzhuàng)
磕磕撞撞
磕頭撞腦 / 磕头撞脑
羊撞籬笆 / 羊撞篱笆
耐撞
胸廝撞 / 胸厮撞
花式撞球 (huāshì zhuàngqiú)
莽撞 (mǎngzhuàng)
莽莽撞撞
衝州撞府 / 冲州撞府
衝撞 / 冲撞 (chōngzhuàng)
誤打誤撞 / 误打误撞 (wùdǎwùzhuàng)
跌跌撞撞 (diēdiēzhuàngzhuàng)
追撞
遊營撞屍 / 游营撞尸
頂撞 / 顶撞 (dǐngzhuàng)

Japanese

Kanji

撞

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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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)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

撞: Hán Nôm readings: chàng, tràng

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