碰巧

pèngqiǎo

adverb HSK 7 #4,029

Meanings

1 by chance
2 as it happens
3 coincidentally

Characters

to bump into; to encounter

coincidental; clever

Examples

我碰巧在超市遇到了他。

Wǒ pèngqiǎo zài chāoshì yùdàole tā.

I happened to run into him at the supermarket.

碰巧那天我没有课。

Pèngqiǎo nà tiān wǒ méiyǒu kè.

As it happened, I had no classes that day.

Tips

usage

碰巧 is interchangeable with 恰巧 and 凑巧, all meaning 'by coincidence'. 碰巧 is the most colloquial of the three.

Stroke Order

碰 pèng

巧 qiǎo