hōng

rumble

Depicts the sound made by many vehicles (). The meaning later shifted to "rumble".

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

Evolution

轟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
轟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hōng

rumble, explosion, blast; explosion; bang; boom; rumble; to attack; to shoo away; to expel

Most common words with 轟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bang

轰炸

to bomb

轰动

commotion

轰炸机

bomber (aircraft)

轰轰烈烈

strong

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.6016% of movies

2019th most common character in movies

1264th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+8F5F

Shuowen

“轟,羣車聲也。从三車。”


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