相逢

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Chinese

each other; appearance; portrait
each other; appearance; portrait; picture; one another; mutually
 
every time; meet by chance
trad. (相逢)
simp. #(相逢)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (16) (3)
Final () (105) (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter sjang bjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋ/ /bɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋ/ /bioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋ/ /bioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋ/ /buawŋ/
Li
Rong
/siaŋ/ /bioŋ/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋ/ /bĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋ/ /bʱi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāng féng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
soeng1 fung4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāng féng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjang › ‹ bjowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*aŋ/ /*(r)oŋ/
English mutually encounter (v.)

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 13579 3234
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*slaŋ/ /*boŋ/

Verb

相逢

  1. to meet by chance; to bump into each other; to run into each other

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