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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

撞 (Yale jong6)

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Japanese

Kanji

撞

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

撞 (pinyin zhuàng (zhuang4), Wade-Giles chuang⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

撞 (chàng, tràng)

Last modified on 11 January 2011, at 13:53