撞 - Dong Chinese dictionary

zhuàng

knock against

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 童 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

童 Sound component

tóng

child

撞 and 童 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.撞 /*[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ/, /*N-tˤ<r>oŋ-s/
童 /*[d]ˤoŋ/

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

撞

zhuàng

knock against, bump into, collide; to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident

Most common words with 撞

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	撞	to bump into
	碰撞	to collide
	撞击	to strike
	相撞	collision
	撞车	to crash (into another car)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ	draewng	chuáng	strike
*N-tˤ<r>oŋ-s	draewngH	zhuàng	strike

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 32.5965% of movies

1069th most common character in movies

1540th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+649E
Shuowen	“撞，卂擣也。从手，童聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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