遇

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遇 U+9047, 遇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9047
← 遆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 遈 →

Translingual

Stroke order
Mainland China and Japan

Han character

遇 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜田中月 (YWLB), four-corner 36302, composition ⿺辶禺)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1261, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3857, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+9047

Chinese

trad. 遇
simp. # 遇
2nd round simp. 迂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
齵 *ŋoː, *ŋo
偶 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦 *ŋoːʔ
藕 *ŋoːʔ
髃 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅 *ŋoːʔ
愚 *ŋo
隅 *ŋo
禺 *ŋo, *ŋos
湡 *ŋo
堣 *ŋo
嵎 *ŋo
鰅 *ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝 *ŋo
遇 *ŋos
寓 *ŋos
庽 *ŋos
媀 *ŋos
喁 *ŋoŋ
顒 *ŋoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋos) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos).

Etymology

Possibly cognate with 遘 (OC *koːs, *koːs, “to meet”)，覯 (OC *koːs, “to come across”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 遇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 牛具切
Baxter ngjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋuə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/ŋioH/
Wang
Li 		/ŋĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 遇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngjuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋ(r)o-s/
English meet with

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 遇
Reading # 1/1
No. 15929
Phonetic
component 		禺
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		遇
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋos/

Definitions

遇

  1. to meet; to come across; to encounter; to run into
  2. (literary, or in compounds) to treat; to handle; to receive; to entertain
  3. (literary, or in compounds) chance; fortune; opportunity
  4. 43rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "encounters" (𝌰)
  5. a surname

Synonyms

  • (to meet):
Dialectal synonyms of 遇 (“to encounter”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 遇, 碰, 遭
Mandarin Taiwan 遇, 碰
Malaysia 遇, 碰
Singapore 遇, 碰
Cantonese Guangzhou 遇, 撞
Hong Kong 遇, 撞
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 遇, 撞
Singapore (Guangfu) 遇
Hakka Meixian 遇, 撞
Southern Min Xiamen 拄, 撞, 衝, 磅
Quanzhou 拄, 撞, 衝
Zhangzhou 拄, 衝
Tainan 拄, 撞, 磅
Penang (Hokkien) 拄
Singapore (Hokkien) 拄
Manila (Hokkien) 拄, 遇
Chaozhou 遇, 堵
Shantou 遇
Jieyang 遇, 堵
Singapore (Teochew) 堵
Wu Shanghai 碰
  • (to treat):
  • (opportunity):

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 遇
Kyūjitai
遇󠄁
遇+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
遇󠄄
遇+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

遇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. interview
  2. treat
  3. entertain
  4. receive
  5. deal with

Readings

References

  1. ^ “遇”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 遇 (MC ngjuH).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

遇 (eumhun 만날 우 (mannal u))

  1. Hanja form? of 우 (“meet”).

Compounds

Compounds

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

遇: Hán Nôm readings: ngộ

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