HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

遇见 yùjiàn “to meet (by chance)” in Chinese

Traditional 遇見

What 遇见 means

  1. to meet (by chance)
  2. to run into
  3. to meet

How to say 遇见

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale遇yù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling

遇见 in a sentence

  1. 我又遇见她了。

    Wǒ yòu yùjiàn tā le.

    I ran into her again.

    Sentence #13943496 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 想不到会在这里遇见你！

    Xiǎngbudào huì zài zhèlǐ yùjiàn nǐ!

    Fancy meeting you here!

    Sentence #824549 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 我在车站遇见他。

    Wǒ zài chēzhàn yùjiàn tā.

    I ran into him at the station.

    Sentence #848779 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 遇见 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 遇 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
遇yùto encounter; to happen upon
  • 禺district · yúSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 禺 (yú) hints at the sound. Compare it with yù.

The character 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

How to write 遇见

遇 12 strokes · 见 4 strokes

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遇见 (yùjiàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 遇见 (yùjiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 遇见

Words with 遇

遇到yùdào · to meet待遇dàiyù · treatment遭遇zāoyù · to encounter机遇jīyù · opportunity

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye听见tīngjiàn · to hear见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody见到jiàndào · to see不见bújiàn · to be missing常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea可见kějiàn · it can clearly be seen (that this is the case)

More words: Everyday Verbs

练liàn · to practise不见bújiàn · to be missing刷shuā · to brush分开fēnkāi · to separate刮guā · to blow (of wind)扫sǎo · to sweep搬家bānjiā · to move house关机guānjī · to turn off (a device)

FAQs

遇见 (yùjiàn) means “to meet (by chance)” or “to run into”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it yùjiàn: yù with a 4th tone, then jiàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 遇见 is written 遇見. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yujian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 遇见 from the suggestions. Typing yujian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
遇见 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.