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冲击 chōngjī “impact” in Chinese

Traditional 衝擊

What 冲击 means

  1. impact
  2. to strike
  3. to pound
  4. to attack
  5. to batter
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (of waves) to pound against
  • shock

How to say 冲击

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale冲chōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale击jī1st tone, high and level

冲击 in a sentence

  1. 魅力冲击视觉，美德征服心灵。

    Mèilì chōngjī shìjué, měidé zhēngfú xīnlíng.

    Charm catches the eye, but virtue wins the heart.

    Sentence #464955 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 冲击 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 冲 (chōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
冲chōngto dash against
  • 冫ice · bīngMeaning part
  • 中central · zhōngSound part

冫 hints at the meaning (ice); 中 (zhōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chōng.

The character 击 (jī) drawn as one shape
击jīto hit

击 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 冲击

冲 6 strokes · 击 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 冲击

Words with 冲

冲chōng · to rush冲动chōngdòng · impulse冲突chōngtū · conflict

Words with 击

射击shèjī · to shoot打击dǎjī · to strike攻击gōngjī · to attack袭击xíjī · to attack

More words: Ideas & Concepts

差别chābié · difference场合chǎnghé · occasion场面chǎngmiàn · scene成效chéngxiào · effect川流不息chuānliúbùxī · flowing in an endless stream (of people or traffic)处境chǔjìng · situation出路chūlù · way out出息chūxi · promise

FAQs

冲击 (chōngjī) means “impact” or “to strike”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chōngjī: chōng with a 1st tone, then jī with a 1st 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, 冲击 is written 衝擊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chongji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冲击 from the suggestions. Typing chongji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冲击 is an HSK 6 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.