沖
chōng HSK4

flush, wash away

冲 (沖) chōng
dash verb
to dash against, collide with, or rise in the air

巨浪不断冲向岸边的礁石。

jù​làng bù​duàn chōng xiàng àn biān de jiāo​shí.

Huge waves keep crashing against the rocks on the shore.

infuse verb
to mix with water or brew

他在给自己冲咖啡。

tā zài gěi zì​jǐ chōng kā​fēi.

He is making himself a cup of coffee.

rinse verb
to rinse or flush with water

请把碗里的泡沫冲干净。

qǐng bǎ wǎn lǐ de pào​mò chōng gān​jìng.

Please rinse the soap bubbles off the bowl.

develop verb
to develop a photographic film

底片已经冲好了。

dǐ​piàn yǐ​jīng chōng hǎo le.

The negatives have been developed.

Frequency
Character
Written text
702nd most common 275.8 per million
Movie subtitles
784th most common 160.6 per million appears in 52% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
114.8 per million appears in 33% of films
Written text
72.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
冲
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6C96

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