遭

遭 U+906D, 遭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-906D ← 遬 [U+906C] CJK Unified Ideographs 遮 → [U+906E]

Translingual

Han character

遭 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+11, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿田日 (YTWA), four-corner 3530₆, composition ⿺辶曹)

Derived characters

• 㯾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1264, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39082
• Dae Jaweon: page 1759, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3875, character 4
• Unihan data for U+906D

Chinese

trad.		遭
simp. #		遭
2nd round simp.		⿺辶早

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
遭	*ʔsluː
糟	*ʔsluː
醩	*ʔsluːu
傮	*ʔsluː
槽	*ʔsluː, *zluː
曹	*zluː
螬	*zluː
漕	*zluː, *zluːs
嘈	*zluː
艚	*zluː
褿	*zluː
蓸	*zluː
慒	*lju, *zluːŋ

Characters in the same phonetic series (曹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsluː) : semantic 辶 (“movement”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – to meet with (on the road).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	遭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	作曹切
Baxter	tsaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saw/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑu/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zāo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsaw ›
Old Chinese	/*tsˁu/
English	encounter (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遭
Reading #	1/1
No.	1149
Phonetic component	曹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	糟
Old Chinese	/*ʔsluː/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zāo (zao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chô
• Eastern Min (BUC): cŏ̤
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cho͘ / cho / chau
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zao
    • Wade–Giles: tsao¹
    • Yale: dzāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzau
    • Palladius: цзао (czao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zou¹
    • Yale: jōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chô
    • Hakka Romanization System: zo^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zo¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡so²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho
    • Tâi-lô: tso
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoy
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡so⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chau
    • Tâi-lô: tsau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁴⁴/

Note: cho͘/cho - literary, chau - vernacular.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsau
    • MiniDict: tsau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsaw

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tsˤu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluː/

Definitions

遭

1. to come across; to meet with; to encounter
2. to suffer; to be subjected to; passive voice marker (for negative events)

   Antonym: 獲 / 获

   慘遭淘汰／惨遭淘汰  ―  cǎn zāo táotài  ―  to be unfortunately eliminated

   遭警方拘捕  ―  zāo jǐngfāng jūbǔ  ―  to be arrested by the police

3. Classifier for number of occurrences of events: times; turns

Synonyms

• (to come across): 遇 (yù)
• (classifier for events): 回 (huí), 次 (cì)

Compounds

• 一週遭 / 一周遭
• 一遭
• 周遭 (zhōuzāo)
• 寬打周遭 / 宽打周遭
• 慘遭 / 惨遭 (cǎnzāo)
• 沒遭罹 / 没遭罹
• 第一遭
• 萍水相遭
• 遭劫
• 遭受 (zāoshòu)
• 遭報 / 遭报 (zāobào)
• 遭家不造
• 遭心
• 遭時不遇 / 遭时不遇
• 遭業 / 遭业
• 遭殃 (zāoyāng)
• 遭瘟
• 遭罪 (zāozuì)
• 遭逢 (zāoféng)
• 遭遇 (zāoyù)
• 遭遇戰 / 遭遇战 (zāoyùzhàn)
• 遭際 / 遭际
• 遭難 / 遭难 (zāonàn)
• 險遭不測 / 险遭不测
• 頭一遭兒 / 头一遭儿

Japanese

Shinjitai	遭
Kyūjitai [1]	遭󠄁 遭+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遭󠄃 遭+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 遭

遭

(Jōyō kanji)

1. To meet with; To encounter by chance; To come across (unfavorably)
2. To encounter a bad experience.
3. To have an accident

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: あう (au, 遭う, Jōyō)^{←あふ (afu, 遭ふ, historical)}

References

1. “遭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 遭 (MC tsaw).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

遭

Wikisource 遭 (eumhun 만날 조 (mannal jo))

1. hanja form^? of 조 (“meet”)

Compounds

• 조난 (遭難, jonan)
• 조우 (遭遇, jou)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

遭: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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