HSK 5 · Verbs

冲 chōng “to rush” in Chinese

Traditional 沖

What 冲 means

  1. to rush
  2. to charge
  3. to rinse
  4. to pour boiling water on (tea etc)
  5. (of water) to dash against
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to mix with water
  • to infuse
  • to flush
  • to develop (a film)

How to say 冲

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

冲 in a sentence

  1. 每个人都向我们冲来。

    Měi ge rén dōu xiàng wǒmen chōng lái.

    Everyone rushed towards us.

    Sentence #9953256 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我今天没时间冲澡。

    Wǒ jīntiān méi shíjiān chōngzǎo.

    I didn’t have time for a shower today.

    Sentence #9963111 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 杰西正在烧开水来冲咖啡。

    Jiéxī zhèngzài shāo kāishuǐ lái chōng kāfēi.

    Jessie is boiling water to make coffee.

    Sentence #891967 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 冲 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.

How to write 冲

冲 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 冲

Words with 冲

冲动chōngdòng · impulse冲突chōngtū · conflict冲击chōngjī · impact

More words: Common Verbs

承受chéngshòu · to bear吃亏chīkuī · to lose out持续chíxù · to continue充满chōngmǎn · to be full of出示chūshì · to show出席chūxí · to attend处理chǔlǐ · to handle传播chuánbō · to disseminate

FAQs

冲 (chōng) means “to rush” or “to charge”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chōng: chōng 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 is written 沖. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冲 from the suggestions. Typing chong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冲 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.