Illustration: A couple are eating a simple lunch in the kitchen behind their small neighborhood shop when an old friend appears at the open doorway, travel bag still over one shoulder. The visitor gives an easy little wave, as though dropping in were the most natural thing in the world.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

ひょっこり

hyokkori

unexpectedly, by chance

Example sentences

  1. 今朝けさひょっこり旧友きゅうゆうに会あった。

    I ran into an old friend of mine this morning.

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  2. 彼女かのじょはどこからともなくひょっこりやってきた。

    She came up from goodness knows where.

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  3. ボストンでね、ひょっこり昔むかしの友達ともだちに会あったんだ。

    I met an old friend by chance in Boston.

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