Definitions
- 1. to gather together, pool or collect
- 2. to happen by chance
- 3. to move close to
- 4. to exploit an opportunity
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Collocations
Often used with 钱 (qián, money) or 人数 (rénshù, number of people) to mean pooling resources.
Common mistakes
Not used for accidental physical encounters; use 碰 (pèng) or 撞 (zhuàng) for bumping into things.
Example Sentences
1 shown我们 凑 了一些钱给妈妈买礼物。
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Words Containing 凑
to bring together
fortuitously
compact
assembled at random
unluckily
to assemble
(idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces; to combine items from disparate sources
to put together hastily
to pool resources (for a gift, project etc)
to put together
at hand
to serve as a stopgap
to join in the fun
to comply in order to please others
to scrape together enough (people, money etc)
to approach
to raise enough money to do sth
to collect all the bits to make a whole
compact car model
Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)
to put together various bits
can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one