恰恰

qiàqià

adverb HSK 6 #6,804

Meanings

Doubling 恰 intensifies the meaning to 'precisely' or 'exactly.'

恰恰相反，事实并非如此。

Qiàqià xiāngfǎn, shìshí bìngfēirúcǐ.

On the contrary, the facts are not so.

问题恰恰出在这里。

Wèntí qiàqià chū zài zhèlǐ.

The problem lies precisely here.

你说的恰恰是我想说的。

Nǐ shuō de qiàqià shì wǒ xiǎng shuō de.

What you said is precisely what I wanted to say.

usage

恰恰 often appears before 相反 (opposite) — 恰恰相反 means 'quite the contrary.' It adds emphasis, like 'precisely' or 'just exactly.'

usage

恰恰 is the emphatic form of 恰好. It stresses that something is exactly the case, often with a sense of irony or surprise.

恰 qià