to touch; to meet; to bump

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
men
míng
tiān
zài
fēi
diàn
pèng
miàn
ba

Let's meet at the coffee shop tomorrow.

2
zài
jiē
shàng
pèng
jiàn
le
wèi
lǎo
péng
yǒu

I bumped into an old friend on the street.

3
pèng
qiǎo
zhī
dào
jiā
cān
tīng
de
wèi
zhì

I happen to know the location of that restaurant.

4
pèng
qiǎo
kàn
jiàn
zhī
māo

I happened to see a cat.

5
zuó
tiān
pèng
qiǎo
zài
chāo
shì
dào
le
de
lǎo
shī

Yesterday I happened to meet my teacher at the supermarket.

6
men
pèng
qiǎo
zài
tóng
jiā
gōng
gōng
zuò
zhè
zhēn
shì
tài
qiǎo
le

We happened to work at the same company, which is such a coincidence.

7
xiǎng
jiè
de
shū
dàn
jiè
pèng
dīng
zi
le

I wanted to borrow his book, but he refused, so I got rejected.

8
zhǎo
gōng
zuò
de
shí
hòu
pèng
le
hěn
duō
dīng
zi
dàn
zuì
hòu
zhōng
zhǎo
dào
le
fèn
hǎo
gōng
zuò

He encountered many rejections while job hunting, but eventually found a good job.

9
xiàng
lǎo
bǎn
chū
jiā
xīn
de
yāo
qiú
jié
guǒ
pèng
le
dīng
zi
zhǐ
hǎo
zàn
shí
fàng
zhè
ge
xiǎng

She asked her boss for a raise, but got turned down, so she had to put the idea aside for now.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes13
StructureLeft-Right
Frequency#1382
Zhuyinㄆㄥˋ
Components
UnicodeU+78B0
CangjieMRBUK
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality