逢

féng · HSK 7

meet

🤝 féng sounds like 'fung' — kung-fu fung, two fighters meet by chance

逢 = 辶 (walk radical) + 夆 (phonetic). The walking foot signals movement, and the meaning is an unplanned encounter — to come upon someone while travelling. Common in 相逢 (xiāngféng, meet by chance).

逢 — walk radical 辶 + 夆 (phonetic)
逢 is a phonetic-semantic compound. The 辶 radical signals motion or going, while 夆 supplies the sound. Originally meaning 'to meet on the road,' it now broadly means 'to encounter' or 'to come upon.'

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