우연

uyeon · [우연]

chance · accident

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. chance; accidentSomething happened by chance without a proper cause.

Written Forms

우연Hangul
偶然Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

마침 촬영장 가려던 참이었는데 정말 반가운 우연이네요.

I was just about to head to the set myself, so what a pleasant coincidence.

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What a coincidence, I also eat coffee and bread here often.

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Like this, an attitude that is based on thorough calculation but at times embraces contingency is required of an actor.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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