会晤
huì wù · HSK 7
to meet
🤝 会 (to meet) + 晤 (meet face-to-face); a formal sit-down meeting
会 carries the everyday sense of meeting up, while 晤 adds a face-to-face, often official nuance. Together 会晤 names a formal meeting or conference between officials or parties.
会 — 人 person on top + 云 cloud/say below (simplified from 會)
The traditional form 會 showed a lid over a vessel with contents stacked inside, depicting things coming together — hence 'meet, gather, assemble.' From 'gathering' it extended to 'meeting,' then 'understand' (minds meeting) and 'be able to.' The simplified 会 keeps only a schematic top and bottom.