衝
collide; brunt; highway; opposition (astronomy); thrust; pierce; stab; prick
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 972.
Readings
- ショウ (on reading): 衝突 (しょうとつ) collision; 衝撃 (しょうげき) impact
- つく (kun reading): 肩衝 (かたつき) tea container having pronounced "shoulders" near the neck; 怒髪天を衝く (どはつてんをつく) to boil with rage
Components
- 行
- 重
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- ｜ radical vertical stroke
- 彳 radical step, left-side form of 行
- 日 radical sun; day
- 行 radical go; conduct
- 里 radical village; ri
Words using 衝
- 衝突 (しょうとつ) collision
- 衝撃 (しょうげき) impact
- 衝動 (しょうどう) impulse
- 要衝 (ようしょう) important point
- 衝撃的 (しょうげきてき) devastating
- 肩衝 (かたつき) tea container having pronounced "shoulders" near the neck
- 怒髪天を衝く (どはつてんをつく) to boil with rage
- 鼻衝 (はなつき) meeting head on
- 意気天を衝く (いきてんをつく) to be in high spirits
- 天を衝く (てんをつく) to tower extremely high
- 衝立 (ついたて) partitioning screen
- 衝立障子 (ついたてしょうじ) partitioning screen
81 words in all.