猛
měng HSK6

violent

猛 měng
fierce adjective
ferocious; violent; savage

也许是潮水太猛了，或者我们太弱了。

yě​xǔ shì cháo​shuǐ tài měng le, huò​zhě wǒ​men tài ruò le.

Maybe the tide was too strong, or maybe we were too weak.

suddenly adverb
abruptly; all of a sudden; appearing quickly and unexpectedly
with concentrated force adverb
to exert energy suddenly and intensely; with a sudden burst of power

当汽车以低速行驶时，猛踩刹车并不是很大的风险。

dāng qì​chē yǐ dī​sù xíng​shǐ shí, měng cǎi shā​chē bìng bù​shì hěn dà de fēng​xiǎn.

When a car is moving at low speeds, slamming on the brakes isn't a big risk.

vigorous adjective
brave; valiant; powerful or intense in strength or spirit
to excess adjective
(colloquial) without restraint; to one's heart's content; (of eating, talking, etc.) wildly or excessively

我好几星期都没笑得这么猛了。

wǒ hǎo​jǐ xīng​qī dōu méi xiào de zhè​me měng le.

I have not laughed so hard in weeks.

awesome
(slang) impressive; powerful; awesome
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,157th most common 123.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,752nd most common 29.6 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.4 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
38.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+731B

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