Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

遇: meet, encounter

Also: interview, treat, entertain, receive, deal with

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 禺 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

グウguu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 待遇たいぐうtreatment; reception; service
  • 優遇ゆうぐうfavorable treatment; favourable treatment
  • 処遇しょぐうtreatment (of a person); dealing with
  • 境遇きょうぐう
  • 最優遇さいゆうぐうmost favourable treatment
  • 不遇ふぐうmisfortune; ill fate; bad luck

Also read あう, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
禺

Also built on 禺

遇 takes the 禺 family's reading, グウ (guu).

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

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Also read グウ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
遇 meet · ⻌
vs偶 accidentally · 亻
遇 has ⻌ where 偶 has 亻.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yù

Same form: 遇 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
遇 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
遇 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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