碰 pèng to touch
怎么记住“碰”: 石 stone + 並 to combine = to touch. The red curling stone slows down, so the sweepers combine their efforts, and it just manages to touch the centre ring.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
碰 = 石 stone + 並 to combine
- 石 stone meaning
- 並 to combine sound
The red curling stone slows down, so the sweepers combine their efforts, and it just manages to touch the centre ring.
How it came to be
The rock gives the meaning and the right part the sound.
用法
- Everyday spoken verb for physical contact: "to touch", "to bump into", "to run into (a person)".
- 碰见/碰到 (pèngjiàn/pèngdào) means "to run into someone by chance", more casual and coincidence-flavored than 遇到 (yùdào), which can describe planned or unplanned encounters alike.
- 碰巧 (pèngqiǎo) "by coincidence" is a common adverb: 我碰巧在那儿 "I happened to be there".
- 碰钉子 (pèng dīngzi) "to hit a snag/get rebuffed" is a vivid colloquial idiom, literally "to bump into a nail".