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"happen to" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
正好 zhèng hǎo just (in time) / just right / just enough / to happen to / to chance to / by chance / it just so happens that syn
碰巧 pèng qiǎo by chance / by coincidence / to happen to syn
正巧 zhèng qiǎo just by chance / to happen to (just at the right time) / opportune syn
值 zhí value / (to be) worth / to happen to / to be on duty syn
罹 lí happen to / sorrow / suffer from syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
可能 kě néng might (happen) / possible / probable / possibility / probability / maybe / perhaps / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
爱 愛 ài to love / to be fond of / to like / affection / to be inclined (to do sth) / to tend to (happen) syn
发生 發生 fā shēng to happen / to occur / to take place / to break out syn
令 lìng to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem syn
刚好 剛好 gāng hǎo just / exactly / to happen to be syn
不会 不會 bù huì improbable / unlikely / will not (act, happen etc) / not able / not having learned to do sth / (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it / not at all syn
死人 sǐ rén dead person / (coll.) to die / (of a death) to happen syn
征兆 徵兆 zhēng zhào omen / sign (that sth is about to happen) / warning sign syn
早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future syn
一触即发 一觸即發 yī chù jí fā could happen at any moment / on the verge syn
作怪 zuò guài (of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex) syn
并发 併發 bìng fā to happen simultaneously / (medicine) (of one disease) to be complicated by (another) / (of another disease) to erupt simultaneously / (computing) concurrent syn
不谋而合 不謀而合 bù móu ér hé to agree without prior consultation / to happen to hold the same view syn
听任 聽任 tīng rèn to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield syn
适逢 適逢 shì féng to just happen to coincide with syn
横生 橫生 héng shēng to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly syn
偶见 偶見 ǒu jiàn to happen upon / to see incidentally / occasional / accidental
出糗 chū qiǔ (coll.) to have sth embarrassing happen
愿 願 yuàn (bound form) wish / hope / desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen) / may ... / vow / pledge syn
遇 yù (bound form) to encounter / to happen upon / to meet unplanned / (bound form) to treat / to receive syn
凑 湊 còu to gather together, pool or collect / to happen by chance / to move close to / to exploit an opportunity syn
适逢其会 適逢其會 shì féng qí huì (idiom) to happen to be in the right place at the right time syn
天有不测风云 天有不測風雲 tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún fortune as unpredictable as the weather (idiom) / sth unexpected may happen at any moment
不期然而然 bù qī rán ér rán happen unexpectedly / turn out contrary to one's expectations
不问好歹 不問好歹 bù wèn hǎo dǎi no matter what may happen (idiom)
任随 任隨 rèn suí to allow (sb to have his head) / to let things happen
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福 天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福 tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom) / sth unexpected may happen at any moment
怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 zěn me gǎo de How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?
朕兆 zhèn zhào omen / sign (that sth is about to happen) / warning sign
赤口日 chì kǒu rì third day of the lunar year (inauspicious for visits because arguments happen easily on that day)
发展中国家空间技术研讨会－付诸实施 發展中國家空間技術研討會－付諸實施 Symposium on Space Technology in the Developing Countries - Making it Happen
任令 rèn lìng to allow (sth to happen)
免不得 miǎn bu de unavoidable / bound to (happen) syn
乐见其成 樂見其成 lè jiàn qí chéng to look favorably on sth / would be glad see it happen
乐观其成 樂觀其成 lè guān qí chéng to look favorably on sth / would be glad to see it happen
触霉头 觸霉頭 chù méi tóu to cause sth unfortunate to happen (to oneself or sb else) / to do sth inauspicious / to have a stroke of bad luck syn
事不过三 事不過三 shì bù guò sān (idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times / don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times
强扭的瓜不甜 強扭的瓜不甜 qiǎng niǔ de guā bù tián lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
前方高能 qián fāng gāo néng (slang) Something awesome is about to happen! (originally, in a Japanese space battleship anime, it meant "Danger! High energy up ahead!" — a warning to either prepare for battle or take evasive action)
只见 只見 zhǐ jiàn to see (the same thing) over and over again / to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly) syn
承想 chéng xiǎng (often used in the negative) to anticipate / to expect / to think that sth would happen
频发 頻發 pín fā (usu. of bad things) to frequently happen / to occur often
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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