Chinese symbol for “impulse”
冲动
chōng dòng
Traditional: 衝動
to have an urge; to be impetuous; impulse; urge
The closest CC-CEDICT match for impulse is 冲动 (chōng dòng), defined as: to have an urge; to be impetuous; impulse; urge.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “impulse”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冲动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冲突 (衝突) | chōng tū | conflict; to conflict |
| 冲击 (沖擊) | chōng jī | variant of 冲击 (chōng jī) |
| 脉冲 (脈衝) | mài chōng | pulse (physics) |
| 冲破 (衝破) | chōng pò | breakthrough; to overcome an obstacle quickly |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
See also: Japanese symbol for “impulse”.
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.