交朋友
Meaning
- to make friends
- (dialect) to start an affair with sb
Example sentence
我想跟你交朋友。
I do want to be your friend.
Characters in 交朋友
- 交 jiāo to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- 朋 péng friend
- 友 yǒu friend, friendly
交 to hand over or associate plus 朋友 friend. Making friends is a verb-object pair, so it splits: 交了很多朋友.