We met her by accident.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
碰到
to come across
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to come across
02
to run into
03
to meet
04
to hit
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 碰到 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 碰到 appears in 39 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You met him at the university?
I met him at the barber's.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 碰到.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 碰到.
Directly before
- 昨天碰到3
- 偶然碰到2
- 里碰到2
- 街上碰到2
- 这里碰到2
Directly after
- 碰到了13
- 碰到他5
- 碰到你5
- 碰到过2
- 碰到她2
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 碰到
What does 碰到 mean in Chinese?
碰到 (pèngdào) means to come across.
How do you pronounce 碰到?
碰到 is pronounced pèngdào.
Is 碰到 an HSK word?
碰到 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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