Meaning of 萍水相逢
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píngshuǐxiāngféng
- strangers coming together by chance (idiom)
萍水相逢 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
关山难越，谁悲失路之人。萍水相逢，尽是他乡之客。
The mountain passes are hard to cross; who will mourn for those who have lost their way? Meeting by chance like drifting duckweed, we are all but travelers in a foreign land.
他两个萍水相逢，年相若，貌相似，谭吐应对之间，彼此敬慕。
The two met entirely by chance. Being of similar age and appearance, they quickly found themselves admiring one another as they conversed.
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萍 píng · duckweed · 11 strokes
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水 shuǐ · water · 4 strokes
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相 xiāng · mutual · 9 strokes
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逢 féng · to meet by chance · 10 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 萍水相逢.
| 水果 | shuǐguǒ | fruit |
| 相信 | xiāngxìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 相同 | xiāngtóng | identical; same |
| 水平 | shuǐpíng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 相机 | xiàngjī | camera (abbr. for 照相機|照相机[zhao4 xiang4 ji1]); at the opportune moment |
| 照相 | zhàoxiàng | to take a photograph |
| 药水 | yàoshuǐ | medicine in liquid form; bottled medicine |
| 相当 | xiāngdāng | equivalent to; appropriate |
| 互相 | hùxiāng | each other; mutually |
| 相关 | xiāngguān | related; relevant |
| 相互 | xiānghù | each other; mutual |
| 相似 | xiāngsì | similar; alike |
Questions about 萍水相逢
What does 萍水相逢 mean?
萍水相逢 (píngshuǐ-xiāngféng) means "strangers coming together by chance (idiom)".
How do you write 萍水相逢?
萍水相逢 is made of 4 characters: 萍 (11 strokes), 水 (4 strokes), 相 (9 strokes), 逢 (10 strokes). That is 34 strokes in total.
Is 萍水相逢 an HSK word?
Yes. 萍水相逢 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.