What 撞 means
It means making forceful contact.
The Han-era dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 撞 as striking. In compounds, 撞車 means collision, 撞見 a chance encounter, and 頂撞 talking back.
Readings vary: Mandarin 撞 is zhuàng in Pinyin; Cantonese 撞見 is zong6 in Jyutping; Japanese 撞く reads つく (tsuku).
Neutral in compounds; alone, it leaves the target unstated.
A lone 撞 does not tell you what was hit or why.
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Who writes 撞
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAn unexpected meeting or discovery.
Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-624B
手 means hand; its left-side form 扌 is the hand component marking 撞’s striking action.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Ae5
Shuowen Jiezi names 童 as 撞’s sound component; it does not directly give the modern Mandarin reading.
CJK Unified Ideograph-885D
In Chinese, 橫衝直撞 means “rush about wildly”; 衝 supplies “rush,” while 撞 adds “collide.”
Questions people ask
1Why does 撞 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 撞
- Search it as
- zhuang · zhuang4 · 撞 meaning · 撞見 · 頂撞
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
撞CSS
\649EPinyin
Type zhuang in a Mandarin pinyin IME and select 撞; a full word narrows the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
撞
HTML hex
撞
CSS content
content: "\649E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%92%9E
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.