chuǎng
se précipiter; charger
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他闯进了房间。
tā chuǎng jìn le fáng jiān.
He barged into the room.
我们闯过了难关。
wǒ men chuǎng guò le nán guān.
We overcame the difficulty.
他们闯祸了。
tā men chuǎng huò le.
They caused trouble.
退 (tuì)
retreat
躲 (duǒ)
dodge
The Chinese character 闯 (chuǎng) is composed of two parts: the radical 门 (mén), which means "door" or "gate," and the phonetic component 闯 (chuǎng), which is a simplified form of the character 闯 (chuǎng), meaning "to rush" or "to break through." The character 闯 (chuǎng) first appeared in the oracle bone script, the earliest known form of Chinese writing, dating back to the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BCE). In the oracle bone script, the character 闯 (chuǎng) was depicted as a person holding a spear and rushing through a door or gate. This suggests that the original meaning of the character 闯 (chuǎng) was "to break through a door or gate." Over time, the meaning of the character 闯 (chuǎng) expanded to include the more general sense of "to rush" or "to break through." The character 闯 (chuǎng) is also used in the sense of "to dare" or "to venture," as in the phrase 闯荡江湖 (chuǎngdàng jiānghú), which means "to venture out into the world."
