Chinese symbol for “incidentally”
偶然
ǒu rán
incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance
The closest CC-CEDICT match for incidentally is 偶然 (ǒu rán), defined as: incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “incidentally”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 附带 (附帶) | fù dài | supplementary; incidentally |
| 顺带 (順帶) | shùn dài | (do sth) in passing; incidentally (while doing sth else) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 偶然.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 偶像 | ǒu xiàng | idol |
| 偶尔 (偶爾) | ǒu ěr | occasionally; once in a while |
| 配偶 | pèi ǒu | spouse |
| 玩偶 | wán ǒu | toy figurine; action figure |
| 木偶 | mù ǒu | puppet |
| 虽然 (雖然) | suī rán | although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 (kě shì) or 但是 (dàn shì) etc) |
| 然后 (然後) | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 当然 (當然) | dāng rán | only natural; as it should be |
See also: Japanese symbol for “incidentally”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.