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撞

撞

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 撞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 撞
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, OC *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 童 ‎(OC *doːŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 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/
Tunxi /t͡sau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyan¹¹/ ～鐘
/t͡ɕʰyan⁴¹/ ～數
Xiangtan /d͡zɔn²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɔŋ³³/
Nanning /t͡sɔŋ²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sɔŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɔuŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡suaŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡siaŋ²³/
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠʌŋ/ /ɖˠʌŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚɔŋ/ /ɖᵚɔŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡɔŋ/ /ȡɔŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖaɨwŋ/ /ɖaɨwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ȡɔŋ/ /ȡɔŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡɔŋ/ /ȡɔŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱɔŋ/ /ȡʱɔŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuáng zhuàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 撞 撞
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuáng zhuàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dræwng › ‹ dræwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ/ /*N-tˤ<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

  1. to hit; to bump against; to strike; to run into; to collide
  2. to meet by chance; to bump into; to come across; to encounter

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

撞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

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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