遭

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遭 U+906D, 遭
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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

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

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Japanese

Shinjitai 遭
Kyūjitai
遭󠄁
遭+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
遭󠄃
遭+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

遭

(common “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

References

  1. ^ “遭”, 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 遭 (MC tsaw).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

遭 (eumhun 만날 조 (mannal jo))

  1. Hanja form? of 조 (“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

遭: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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