verb #15,423

Meanings

  1. 1 to meet (socially); to have an interview

Examples

Liǎng wèi lǐngdǎorén jǔxíng le huìwù.
The two leaders held a meeting.
Tāmen yuēdìng xiàzhōu wùmiàn.
They agreed to meet next week.

Tips

register
is literary and formal. It appears mostly in compounds like 会晤 (huìwù, formal meeting) and (wùmiàn, to meet face-to-face). In everyday speech, use 见面 (jiànmiàn) instead.

Components

radical
sun; day
Left sun radical (Kangxi #72) - pictograph of the sun, a square enclosure with a central dot or stroke. In the radical signals daylight, brightness - meetings traditionally took place in daylight, face-to-face under the sun. Same radical anchors time-and-light chars: (bright), (evening), (time), (spring).
phonetic
I; my (classical)
Right supplies the sound (wú to wù, only tone shifts) and a fitting semantic flavour: is the classical first-person pronoun. A meeting between 'I' and 'thou' under daylight is exactly what names. Same phonetic in (awaken, mental meeting with truth), (paulownia), (speech). 会晤 'meet' is the everyday compound.

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