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冲突

chōng tū

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

冲突 (chōng tū) means "conflict". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 冲突 means

1. conflict
2. to conflict
3. clash of opposing forces
4. collision (of interests)
5. contention

The characters in 冲突

• 冲chōng(of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse
• 突tūto dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge

Example sentences

• 他们有时候有矛盾冲突
  Tāmen yǒushíhou yǒu máodùn chōngtū
  Every now and then they clash over their differences.
• 我没跟他们发生冲突。
  I didn't confront them.
• 他们的冲突终于平息了。
  Tāmen de chōngtū zhōngyú píngxī le.
  Finally, the discord between them came to an end.
• 外交谈判帮助结束了冲突。
  Wàijiāo tánpàn bāngzhù jiéshù le chōngtū.
  Diplomatic dialogue helped put an end to the conflict.
• 这两个国家经常发生边境冲突。
  Zhè liǎng ge guójiā jīngcháng fāshēng biānjìng chōngtū.
  There are often border conflicts between these two countries.
• 安乐死与希波克拉底誓言相冲突。
  Euthanasia comes into conflict with the Hippocratic oath.

Words containing 冲突

• 小冲突xiǎo chōng tūskirmish; clash; dispute
• 利害冲突lì hài chōng tūconflict of interest
• 利益冲突lì yì chōng tūconflict of interest
• 地区冲突dì qū chōng tūlocal or regional confrontation
• 武装冲突wǔ zhuāng chōng tūarmed conflict
• 边境冲突biān jìng chōng tūborder clash
• 肢体冲突zhī tǐ chōng tūphysical encounter; fight

Where 冲突 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.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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