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冲垮 (chōng kuǎ): meaning and stroke order

冲垮 (chōng kuǎ) means to burst, to break through, to topple.

冲垮

Simplified
冲垮
Traditional
衝垮
Pinyin
chōng kuǎ

Stroke order of 冲垮

冲

  • chōng (of water) to dash against; to mix with water
  • chōng thoroughfare; to go straight ahead
  • chòng powerful; vigorous
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沖

Stroke by stroke

垮

  • kuǎ to collapse (lit. or fig.)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 冲垮

  1. chōng kuǎ Traditional 衝垮
    • to burst
    • to break through
    • to topple

Radicals of the characters

冲
Radical 冫 (Kangxi radical 15) · 6 strokes · 冫 on the left, 中 on the right
垮
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 9 strokes · 土 on the left, 夸 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

冲垮 in our stories

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  • 洪水没有冲垮寺庙，却淹了附近许多百姓的家。白素贞为此犯下了大错，身子也越来越虚弱。

    hóngshuǐ méiyǒu chōngkuǎ sìmiào què yān le fùjìn xǔduō bǎixìng de jiā Bái Sùzhēn wèicǐ fàn xià le dà cuò shēnzi yě yuèláiyuè xūruò

    The flood didn't bring down the temple, but it drowned the homes of many people nearby. Bai Suzhen had committed a grave wrong, and she grew weaker and weaker.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 冲垮

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).