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冲击

chōng jī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 衝擊

冲击 (chōng jī) means "impact; to shock". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 冲击 means

1. to attack
2. to batter
3. (of waves) to pound against
4. shock
5. impact

Other readings

冲击 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chōng jīvariant of {冲击|chōng jī}

The characters in 冲击

• 冲chōng(of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse
• 击jīto hit; to strike; to break

Example sentences

• 魅力冲击视觉，美德征服心灵。
  Mèilì chōngjī shìjué, měidé zhēngfú xīnlíng.
  Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
• 马尼夸根湖是加拿大魁北克的环形湖，是2亿年前一场巨大冲击形成的陨石坑遗迹。
  Mǎ ní kuā gēn hú shì Jiānádà Kuíběikè de huánxíng hú, shì 2 yì niánqián yī chǎng jùdà chōngjī xíngchéng de yǔnshíkēng yíjì.
  Lake Manicouagan, a ring-shaped lake in Quebec, Canada, is all that remains of a crater from a massive impact over 200 million years ago.
• 软体开发业的适应力很强，因此 AI 是否会对程式设计的就业市场造成重大冲击，目前仍不明朗。
  Software development as an industry is very adaptable, so it's unclear whether AI will significantly disrupt the programming job market.

Words starting with 冲击

• 冲击力chōng jī lìforce of impact or thrust
• 冲击波chōng jī bōshock wave; blast wave
• 冲击钻chōng jī zuànimpact drill; hammer drill

Words containing 冲击

• 文化冲击wén huà chōng jīculture shock

Sounds the same

Read chōng jī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 充饥to allay one's hunger
• 冲积to alluviate; alluviation; alluvial

Where 冲击 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chì–chōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chōng jī correctly.
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