气冲冲

氣沖沖
qìchōngchōng
adjective #31,613

Meanings

  1. 1 furious
  2. 2 enraged
  3. 3 in a huff
  4. 4 fuming

Examples

Tā qìchōngchōng de tuī mén jìnlái.
He stormed in furiously.
Māmā qìchōngchōng de bǎ diànshì guān le.
Mom turned off the TV in a huff.

Tips

grammar
An ABB-pattern reduplicated adjective — (anger) + (rushing, surging). Doubling intensifies the sense of anger 'rushing out' visibly. Almost always used adverbially with (de) before a verb of arriving, leaving, or speaking: 气冲冲 'storm off', 气冲冲 'snap angrily'.
memory
Picture 'air / qi' literally 'rushing / charging' upward — anger boiling over. The phrase has a near-twin 怒气冲冲 (nùqìchōngchōng) which is just an emphatic version with 'rage' added explicitly.

Stroke Order

chōng