HSK 5 · Verbs

闯 chuǎng “to rush” in Chinese

Traditional 闖

What 闯 means

  1. to rush
  2. to charge
  3. to dash
  4. to break through
  5. to temper oneself (through battling hardships)

How to say 闯

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale闯chuǎng3rd tone, dipping

闯 in a sentence

  1. 天使畏惧处，愚人敢闯入。

    Tiānshǐ wèijù chù, yúrén gǎn chuǎngrù.

    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    Sentence #772090 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我们的房子去年夏天遭到闯入。

    Wǒmen de fángzi qùnián xiàtiān zāodào chuǎngrù.

    Our house was broken into last summer.

    Sentence #13826462 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 闯 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 闯 (chuǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
闯chuǎngto rush
  • 门gate · mén
  • 马horse · mǎ

How to write 闯

闯 6 strokes

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闯 (chuǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 闯 (chuǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 闯

More words: Common Verbs

出示chūshì · to show出席chūxí · to attend处理chǔlǐ · to handle传播chuánbō · to disseminate创造chuàngzào · to create吹chuī · to blow刺激cìjī · to stimulate促进cùjìn · to promote (an idea or cause)

FAQs

闯 (chuǎng) means “to rush” or “to charge”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chuǎng: chuǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 闯 is written 闖. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 闯 from the suggestions. Typing chuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
闯 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.