Character: 逢
Modern (Beijing) reading: féng
Preclassic Old Chinese: b(r)oŋ
Classic Old Chinese: b(r)oŋ
Western Han Chinese: b(r)oŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: b(r)oŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: boŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: boŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: boŋ
Middle Chinese: böuŋ
English meaning : be great; to meet with; as peng 2 "be going peng-peng (sound of drum)"
Russian meaning[s]: 1) встретиться; натолкнуться; 2) происходить, случаться; 3) когда бы ни...; всякий раз, как...; 4) большой, обширный; [péng] бум-бум (звукоподражание барабанному бою)
Comments: Cf. 封 *poŋ. Viet. phồng is a colloquial reading (and, since it means 'to bulge, to swell', quite probably expressive and not borrowed from Chin.); standard Sino-Viet. is phùng (having all the Chinese meanings, but also 'to swell, bulge'). The character already in Shijing has a second reading *bhōŋ, MC buŋ 'sound of drum' (for *bh cf. Fuzhou phuŋ2).
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6508
Karlgren code: 1197 o-q
Go-on: bu
Kan-on: hou
Japanese reading: bu;hō;au
Vietnamese reading: phồng
Shijing occurrences: 26.2
