Chinese

碰

pèng
to collide; to bump; to knock; to touch
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 5
  • radical 石
  • 13 strokes
  • 掽

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 石 (“rock”) + phonetic 並.

Appears in Zihui [Ming dynasty] as 掽, but only attested in literary works since Qing dynasty. Probably a recent colloquial form of 逢 (MC bjowng) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese石 “stone; rock (Classifier: 嚿 c; 塊／块 c)”
  • soundChinese並 “to be side by side; to be in a row”

Words built on it: 碰到

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