不期而遇
bù​qī'ér​yù

to meet by chance

  • created sense approved 不期而遇 · bù​qī'ér​yù · to meet by chance — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不期而遇

    bù​qī'ér​yù

    to meet by chance

    to meet someone unexpectedly without a prior appointment; to have a chance encounter

    bù​qí'ér​yù

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 期 (literal) → 期 · qī · to hope 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 遇 (literal) → 遇 · yù · to encounter

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense