撞击

zhuàng jī · HSK 7

to hit

💥 撞 (collide) + 击 (strike) = ram into and hit

A two-verb compound: 撞 means to bump or collide, 击 means to strike or beat. Stacked together they mean to ram or smash into something with force, like a crash impact.

撞 — hand radical 扌 + 童 (child/zhuàng phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 carries the meaning of striking or colliding, an action done with force. The component 童 supplies the sound, close to 'zhuàng'. Together they form a character meaning to bump into, strike, or crash against something.

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