撞
zhuàng HSK5

knock against

撞 zhuàng
collide verb
to knock against, bump into, or run into physically

两辆车在十字路口猛烈地撞在了一起，损毁严重。

liǎng liàng chē zài shí​zì lù​kǒu měng​liè de zhuàng zài le yī​qǐ, sǔn​huǐ yán​zhòng.

The two cars collided violently at the intersection, resulting in severe damage.

encounter verb
to meet someone by accident or chance

我正要找他，没想在走廊里跟他撞了个正着。

wǒ zhèng yào zhǎo tā, méi xiǎng zài zǒu​láng lǐ gēn tā zhuàng le gè zhèng zháo.

I was just about to look for him, but I happened to run right into him in the hallway.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,540th most common 66.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,069th most common 90.3 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
95.0 per million appears in 27% of films
Written text
38.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+649E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)