Mao Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Hand (shǒu)
撞
Kangxi Stroke Count: 16
Page 455, Entry 01
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced zhuang. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes Meeting (Yunhui): Pronounced zhuang.
Shuowen Jiezi: To hold and pound.
Guangyun: To collide. Also, to strike.
Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Learning (Xueji): A skilled person responding to questions is like striking a bell.
Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce): When pressed, they strike at each other with spears and halberds. Commentary: To pound with the hand.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Biography of Fan Kuai: Holding a shield, he charged directly into the tent. Commentary: This means to use a shield to strike someone.
Poem by Han Yu: Literature amuses me, while metal and stone instruments are struck daily.
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced zhuang (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes Meeting (Yunhui): Pronounced zhuang (falling tone). Same meaning.
Records of the Three Kingdoms (Wei Zhi), Biography of Du Xi: A bell of ten thousand stones cannot be made to sound by striking it with a blade of grass.