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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
碰上
to run into
IN A VIDEO碰上
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to run into
02
to come upon
03
to meet
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 碰上 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 碰上 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
She had two accidents within a year.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 碰上.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 碰上.
Directly before
- 今天碰上1
- 会碰上1
- 一年碰上1
Directly after
- 碰上你2
- 碰上堵车1
- 碰上了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 碰上
What does 碰上 mean in Chinese?
碰上 (pèngshàng) means to run into.
How do you pronounce 碰上?
碰上 is pronounced pèngshàng.
Is 碰上 an HSK word?
碰上 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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