pèng

Traditional: 碰

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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

Stroke order for 碰

Examples

tàng

Do not touch that, it is very hot.

I bumped into an old friend today.

He accidentally knocked over the cup.

Let us try our luck.

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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This word is part of lesson 22.