偏偏

偏偏 piānpiān in a sentence

Opposite to expectation

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

偏偏 (piānpiān) means Opposite to expectation. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我早到了,他 偏偏 迟到了。

Wǒ zǎo dào le, tā piānpiān chídào le.

I arrived early, and of all things he was late.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 偏偏

要出门的时候 偏偏 下起了雨。

Yào chūmén de shíhou piānpiān xià qǐ le yǔ.

Just as we were about to go out it started to rain.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 偏偏

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How is 偏偏 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 偏偏 (piānpiān, "Opposite to expectation"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 偏偏 an HSK word?

Yes — 偏偏 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 偏偏 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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