féng
verb HSK 7-9 #12,291

Meanings

  1. 1 to meet by chance
  2. 2 to come across
  3. 3 every time (a calendar event comes along)

Examples

Měiféngjiājiébèisīqīn.
Every festive season, one misses family all the more.
Féng nián guòjié dōu yào huíjiā kànkan.
You should go home to visit during every holiday.

Tips

usage
is more literary than (yù, to encounter). It often appears in set phrases: 每逢 (every time), 过节 (during holidays), 相逢 (to meet by chance). Rarely used alone in modern speech.

Components

radical
chuò
walk; movement (radical form)
Bottom-left walking radical — the side-form of , a foot at the end of a winding path. The indexing radical, supplying the meaning: is a meeting that happens while you are out and moving, an encounter by chance along the road. The motion radical puts in the come-and-go family alongside meet, pass by, pursue.
phonetic
féng
to meet; peak (here phonetic)
Top-right supplies the sound — féng read straight across with no shift. combines a foot coming down with a flourishing plant, picturing 'reaching the top, coming up against.' That meeting sense lives on directly in . Same phonetic anchors peak, bee, sharp edge.

Stroke Order

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