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逢

逢

Translingual

Han character

逢 (radical 162 辵+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹水十 (YHEJ), four-corner 37304, composition ⿺辶夆)

  1. come upon, happen to meet
  2. flatter
  3. a Chinese surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1258, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38901
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1746, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3844, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9022

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 逢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 逢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /bioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 féng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 逢 逢
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 féng péng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjowng › ‹ buwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[C.b](r)oŋ/ /*bˤoŋ/
English encounter (v.) sound of the drum

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 逢
Reading # 1/1
No. 3234
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 逢
Old
Chinese		 /*boŋ/

Verb

逢

  1. to meet with
    相逢 (xiāngféng)

References

Japanese

Kanji

逢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

逢 • ‎(bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

逢 (phùng, buồng)

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