(pèng) - to touch, to bump into, to meet by chance in Mandarin
pèngTraditional: 碰
Translation
to touch, to bump into, to meet by chance
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the stone radical 石 suggests a hard knock, and 並 (bìng) supplies the sound, giving the meaning of to bump or collide.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 石 (stone radical) + 並 (bìng, phonetic)
Stroke order
碰
Examples
，烫。
Do not touch that, it is very hot.
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I bumped into an old friend today.
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He accidentally knocked over the cup.
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Let us try our luck.
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I ran into her on the way.
碰 (pèng) means to touch, to bump into, to meet by chance. It is a verb for physical contact or a chance encounter.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 碰.
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