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冲击力 (chōng jī lì) — force of impact; impact force

Definition

noun
force of impactimpact force

Examples

  • 冲击力，。
    Zhè cì pèng zhuàng de chōng jī lì fēi cháng dà, chē tóu dōu biàn xíng le.
    The impact force of this collision was so strong that the front of the car was deformed.
  • 冲击力。
    Xīn zhèng cè duì shì chǎng de chōng jī lì chāo chū le yù qī.
    The impact of the new policy on the market exceeded expectations.
  • 冲击力。
    Yùn dòng yuán luò dì shí de chōng jī lì bèi dì miàn de huǎn chōng diàn xī shōu le.
    The impact force when the athlete landed was absorbed by the cushioning mat on the ground.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

冲击impact
冲chōngrush击jīstrike
联合Coordinate
力lìforce

冲 means rush and 击 means strike, while 力 means force, naming the force of an impact.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 衝; 冲 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 冲 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (冲, 冲动) it is 衝; in others (冲) it is 沖.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
行行xíng
Sound part声符shēngfú
重
重zhòng衝chōng
Same sound today

The traditional form 衝 shows 重 inside 行, with 行 as the meaning part and 重 as the sound part; the simplified 冲 is a later shorthand.

Open 冲 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 擊; 击 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
手手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
毄
毄jī擊jī
Same sound today

The traditional form 擊 has 手 (hand) and 毄; 毄 gives the sound and also points to striking, while the simplified 击 is a later shorthand.

Open 击 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

力 is drawn as either an arm bending out from the side of the body or a wooden plough.

Open 力 →
Appears in
Physics & Chemistry

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