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訇

hōng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the sound of a loud crash
  2. 2 a great noise

Examples

訇然中开。
Hōng rán zhōng kāi.
"With a roar the cave split open" - a famous line from Li Bai's dream-journey poem.
那堵旧墙訇的一声倒了。
Nà dǔ jiù qiáng hōng de yì shēng dǎo le.
With a great crash the old wall collapsed.

Tips

usage
訇 imitates a loud crash, mostly in the literary 訇然. The same character also writes 阿訇, the title of a Muslim imam, a transliteration unrelated to the crash sense.

Components

radical
言 yán
speech; sound
言 is the speech radical in full form, here standing for sound in general, which gives 訇 its meaning of a loud noise.
semantic
勹 bāo
to wrap; enclose
勹 is the wrap component curving over the top, enclosing the speech element. It frames 訇 as a burst of sound breaking out.

Stroke Order

訇 hōng