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轰

hōng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 轟

What 轰 means

1. explosion
2. bang
3. boom
4. rumble
5. to attack
6. to shoo away
7. to expel

Example sentences

• 真是轰动一时。
  It was sensational.
• 伦敦被轰炸过许多次。
  Lúndūn bèi hōngzhà guo xǔduō cì.
  London was bombed several times.
• 披头士的发型引起了轰动。
  Pītóushì de fàxíng yǐnqǐ le hōngdòng.
  The hair style of the Beatles created a sensation.
• 齐里听到山谷里传来摩托车的轰鸣声。
  Ziri heard the sound of a motorcycle echoing in the valley.
• 四面八方都是巍峨的雪峰，将他们包围起来，彼此交错，一直延伸到遥远的地平线。两侧的岩岸陡峭无比，落叶松和松树彷佛悬在他们头顶，只需一阵风就能轰然落下。
  In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them.

Words starting with 轰

• 轰动hōng dòngto cause a sensation; to create a stir in (a place); commotion
• 轰炸hōng zhàto bomb; to bombard
• 轰轰烈烈hōng hōng liè lièstrong; vigorous; large-scale
• 轰鸣hōng míngboom (sound of explosion); rumble
• 轰然hōng ránloudly; with a loud bang; a loud rumble
• 轰炸机hōng zhà jībomber (aircraft)
• 轰隆hōng lōng(onomatopoeia) rumbling; rolling
• 轰轰hōng hōngbooming; roaring
• 轰动一时hōng dòng yī shíto cause a sensation (idiom)
• 轰击hōng jībombard
• 轰走hōng zǒuto drive away
• 轰赶hōng gǎnto drive away
• 轰响hōng xiǎngloud sound, such as that of thunder or a bomb; to rumble; to roar
• 轰动效应hōng dòng xiào yìngsensational effect; wild reaction
• 轰趴hōng pā(loanword) party (social gathering); (Taiwan) party…
• 轰趴馆hōng pā guǎnparty venue (available for hire)

Words containing 轰

• 炮轰pào hōngto bombard; to bomb; (fig.) to criticize
• 雷轰léi hōngsound of thunder
• 核轰炸hé hōng zhànuclear bomb
• 核轰炸机hé hōng zhà jīnuclear bomber (aircraft)
• 狂轰滥炸kuáng hōng làn zhàto bomb indiscriminately
• 质子轰击zhì zǐ hōng jīproton bombardment
• 地毯式轰炸dì tǎn shì hōng zhàcarpet bombing
• 战略轰炸机zhàn lüè hōng zhà jīstrategic bomber
• 闹轰轰nào hōng hōngvariant of 闹哄哄

Characters that look like 轰

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 亲qīnparent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn
• 虽suīalthough; even though
• 歪wāiaskew; at a crooked angle; devious
• 岳yuèwife's parents and paternal uncles
• 盅zhōnghandleless cup; goblet

Sounds the same

Read hōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烘to bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast
• 哄roar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)
• 薨death of a prince; swarming
• 訇sound of a crash
• 吽sound of a Buddhist incantation
• 嚝to sigh; sound of a drum
• 𫶕(onomatopoeia) crashing sound; same as 訇
• 焢(archaic) angry appearance