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Definitions
- 1. to meet by chance
- 2. to come across
- 3. (of a calendar event) to come along
- 4. (of an event) to fall on (a particular day)
- 5. to fawn upon
Words Containing 逢
to come at the right time
to come across sth scary; to have a fright
market day
to bow down to everything sb says or does
lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[wáng wéi])
at the Chinese New Year or other festivities
to just happen to coincide with
to encounter (sth unpleasant)
every time
(idiom) to happen to be in the right place at the right time
to fawn on
lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom)
misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless (idiom)
to meet again
to meet (by chance)
see 棋逢對手|棋逢对手[qí féng duì shǒu]
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun
strangers coming together by chance (idiom)
extremely rare (idiom)
on the happy occasion of
to meet again after a long period of separation
to tell anybody one happens to meet
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom)
to be evenly matched
it's a small world (idiom)
lit. to strike water right and left (idiom)
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate)