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

HSK 3
Māma qìchōngchōng de bǎ diànshì guān le.
Mom turned off the TV in a huff.
HSK 4
Tā qìchōngchōng de tuī mén jìnlái.
He stormed in furiously.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

气 qì
冲 chōng