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碰见

pèng jiàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 碰見

碰见 (pèng jiàn) means "to run into". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 碰见 means

1. to run into
2. to meet (unexpectedly)
3. to bump into

The characters in 碰见

• 碰pèngto touch; to meet with; to bump
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)

Example sentences

• 你碰见过她了吗？
  Did you meet her?
• 我碰见了一个老朋友。
  I ran into an old friend.
• 我在回家途中碰见了他。
  I met him on my way home.
• 我在那里碰见一个朋友。
  I met a friend there.
• 我在银行附近碰见老朋友。
  I ran across an old friend near the bank.
• 昨晚我在餐厅里碰见老师。
  I met my teacher by accident at the restaurant last night.

Where 碰见 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Encountering & Physical Contact (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pèng jiàn correctly.
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