怒气冲冲

怒氣沖沖
nùqì-chōngchōng
idiom #23,544

Meanings

  1. 1 fuming with anger
  2. 2 in a rage
  3. 3 bristling with fury

Examples

HSK 3
Tā nùqì-chōngchōng de guàduàn le diànhuà.
She hung up the phone fuming.
HSK 5
Tā nùqì-chōngchōng de chōng jìn bàngōngshì, shuāi shàng le mén.
He stormed into the office fuming with anger and slammed the door.
HSK 7-9
Lǎobǎn nùqì-chōngchōng de wèn shì shéi gǎozá le xiàngmù.
The boss asked in a rage who had ruined the project.

Tips

grammar
怒气冲冲 is built from 怒气 plus the reduplication 冲冲. It functions as an adjectival predicate or pre-verbal adverbial. The reduplication intensifies the sense of anger surging upward.
memory
Picture anger (怒气) surging upward (冲冲 = rushing up) like steam, someone so mad they are literally blowing off steam.

Stroke Order

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