衝

---

← →

collide

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: つ.く

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 10-9-2007(208): Two heavy trucks in a game of chicken collide while racing toward each other on the boulevard.

2) [CountPacula] 13-11-2009(41): Something heavy rolling down the middle of the boulevard is definitely going to end up colliding with something.

3) [noname] 20-2-2008(36): 衝 【しょう】 (n) (1) important point (e.g. on a route); (2) important role (responsibility, etc.); (3) (astronomical) opposition. STORY:Two HEAVY trucks are playing a game of chicken on the BOULEVARD. However, they both missed the IMPORTANT POINT: that they have to turn in different directions. Naturally, they COLLIDE when they both turn in the same direction. (ty dingomick).

4) [jackhuddleston] 29-5-2008(19): Two heavy sumo wrestlers, in normal clothing while shopping, see each other at opposite sides of the boulevard and suddenly get in their stance and charge at each other until they collide, knocking everyone else out of the way.

5) [sgrant] 21-1-2009(17): The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is as wide as a boulevard and so heavy that machinery had to be used to assemble the pieces.

---