féng
come upon
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
féng
come upon, happen meet; flatter; to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
Most common words with 逢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to come across | ||
to meet again | ||
extremely rare (idiom) | ||
to come across | ||
every time |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.b](r)oŋ | bjowng | féng | encounter (v.) |
*bˤoŋ | buwng | péng | sound of the drum |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.3180% of movies
2525th most common character in movies
2181st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9022 |
Shuowen | “逢，遇也。从辵，峯省聲。” |
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