{"path":"/entry/93075","title":"萍水相逢 (píng shuǐ xiāng féng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"萍水相逢 (píng shuǐ xiāng féng): strangers coming together by chance (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":93075,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["萍水相逢"],"TRADITIONAL":["萍水相逢"]}},"phonetic":"píng shuǐ xiāng féng","phoneticKey":"ping2 shui3 xiang1 feng2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"strangers coming together by chance ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":41512,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in the 7th century. Coined by Wang Bo in his masterpiece","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"关山难越，谁悲失路之人；萍水相逢，尽是他乡之客。怀帝阍而不见，奉宣室以何年？","traditional":"關山難越，誰悲失路之人；萍水相逢，盡是他鄉之客。懷帝閽而不見，奉宣室以何年？"},"phonetic":"Guānshān nán yuè, shéi bēi shīlù zhī rén; píngshuǐxiàngféng, jìn shì tāxiāng zhī kè. Huái dìhūn ér bùjiàn, fèng xuānshì yǐ hénián?","english":"Since the mountains and passes are hard to travel over, who would sympathize with the disappointed ones? The people I meet here are all politically frustrated, drifting together like duckweeds. I pine for the Emperor but am not summoned. How long should I wait before being called to the court again like Jia Yi?","ref":"c. 675, 王勃,《秋日登洪府滕王閣餞別序》, translated by Luo Jingguo (罗经国)"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"},{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}