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- to meet by chance
- to come across
- (of a calendar event) to come along
- (of an event) to fall on (a particular day)
- to fawn upon
- Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
- lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom)
- fig. to get a new lease on life
- to be revived
- (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve
- to bow down to everything sb says or does
- to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
- lit. to strike water right and left (idiom)
- fig. to turn everything into gold
- to have everything going one's way
- to benefit from both sides
Trad. 正逢其時
- to come at the right time
- to be opportune
- strangers coming together by chance (idiom)
Trad. 生不逢時
- born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate)
- born under an unlucky star
- ahead of his time
Trad. 絕處逢生
- (idiom) to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless
Trad. 千載難逢
- extremely rare (idiom)
- once in a blue moon
Trad. 逢人便講
- to tell anybody one happens to meet
- misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
Trad. 逢場作戲
- lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun
- to play along according to local conditions
Trad. 逢年過節
- during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year
Trad. 久別重逢
- to meet again after a long period of separation
Trad. 狹路相逢
- lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom)
- fig. enemies or rivals meet face to face
Trad. 適逢其會
- (idiom) to happen to be in the right place at the right time
Trad. 棋逢對手
- to be evenly matched
- to meet one's match
Trad. 棋逢敵手
- see 棋逢對手|棋逢对手[qi2 feng2 dui4 shou3]
- a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom)
- when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down
Trad. 人生何處不相逢
- it's a small world (idiom)
Trad. 每逢佳節倍思親
- doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[Wang2 Wei2])
Trad. 屋漏偏逢連夜雨
- when it rains, it pours (idiom)