漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遭: encounter, meet
Also: party, association, interview, join
JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 曹 gives the sound
14 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遭難そうなん(meeting with) disaster
- 遭遇そうぐうencounter; running into
あうau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遭うあうto meet; to encounter; to see
Also read あわせる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side遭 encounter · ⻌
vs槽 vat · 木In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zāo
Same form: 遭 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 遭 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遭 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zāo 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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