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萍水相逢

píng shuǐ xiāng féng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

萍水相逢 (píng shuǐ xiāng féng) means "strangers coming together by chance (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 萍水相逢 means

1. strangers coming together by chance (idiom)

The characters in 萍水相逢

• 萍píngduckweed
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 逢féngto meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along

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