Chinese symbol for “boom”
咚
dōng
(onom.) boom (of a drum); knock (on the door)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for boom is 咚 (dōng), defined as: (onom.) boom (of a drum); knock (on the door).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “boom”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轰鸣 (轟鳴) | hōng míng | boom (sound of explosion); rumble |
| 樯 (檣) | qiáng | boom; mast |
| 吊杆 | diào gān | a boom (i.e. transverse beam for hanging objects) |
| 轰 (轟) | hōng | explosion; bang |
| 嘣 | bēng | (onom.) thump; boom |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 咚.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叮咚 | dīng dōng | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells |
| 咚咚 | dōng dōng | (onom.) thud; thumping |
| 咕咚 | gū dōng | splash; (onom.) for heavy things falling down |
| 壁咚 | bì dōng | (slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese 壁ドン "kabedon") |
| 黑咕隆咚 | hēi gu lōng dōng | pitch-black; pitch-dark |
See also: Japanese symbol for “boom”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.