歪打正着 (歪打正著)
wāi dǎ zhèng zháo
Pinyin

Definition

歪打正着 (歪打正著)
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wāi dǎ zhèng zháo
  1. to succeed by a lucky stroke

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

反正
fǎn zhèng
  1. 1 anyway
  2. 2 in any case
  3. 3 to come over from the enemy's side
打
dá
  1. 1 dozen (loanword)
打开
dǎ kāi
  1. 1 to open
  2. 2 to show (a ticket)
  3. 3 to turn on
  4. 4 to switch on
正
zhēng
  1. 1 first month of the lunar year
正品
zhèng pǐn
  1. 1 certified goods
  2. 2 quality product
  3. 3 normal product
  4. 4 A-class goods

Idioms (20)

一炮打响
yī pào dǎ xiǎng
  1. 1 to win instant success (idiom)
  2. 2 to start off successfully
一网打尽
yī wǎng dǎ jìn
  1. 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
  3. 3 to capture them all in one go
七扭八歪
qī niǔ bā wāi
  1. 1 misshapen
  2. 2 crooked
  3. 3 uneven (idiom)
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上梁不正下梁歪
shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
  1. 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices

Sample Sentences

阿基拉 》？Akira！哎呀，真是歪打正着，我找了好久都没找到，没想到今天在你这里碰上了。唉，老板，还有一部获得奥斯卡金像奖的日本动漫你这里有吗？那个作者有很多作品。
Ājīlā 》？Akira ！āiyā ，zhēn shì wāidǎzhèngzháo ，wǒ zhǎo le hǎo jiǔ dōu méi zhǎodào ，méixiǎngdào jīntiān zài nǐ zhèlǐ pèngshàng le 。āi ，lǎobǎn ，hái yǒu yī bù huòdé Àosīkǎ Jīnxiàngjiǎng de Rìběn dòngmàn nǐ zhèlǐ yǒu ma ？nàge zuòzhě yǒu hěn duō zuòpǐn 。
``A-ji-la"? Oh, ``Akira"! If we hadn't happened on this, I would've looked for it for ages! Hey, there's another anime that won an Oscar. Do you have it? The guy who made it has made a lot of movies.
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