遭 — Chinese character
遭
zāo
to meet, to encounter, to come across
- Pinyin
- zāo
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 辶 曹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — walk; meaning component 辶; sound component 曹
- Japanese
- 遭 as a kanji
Common words with 遭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遭到 | zāo dào | to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate) |
| 遭遇 | zāo yù | to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse) |
| 遭受 | zāo shòu | to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune) |
| 惨遭 (慘遭) | cǎn zāo | to suffer (defeat, death etc) |
| 周遭 | zhōu zāo | surrounding; nearby |
| 遭拒 | zāo jù | to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa); to have an application rejected |
| 遭殃 | zāo yāng | to suffer a calamity |
| 免遭 | miǎn zāo | to avoid suffering; to avoid meeting (a fatal accident) |
| 遭逢 | zāo féng | to encounter (sth unpleasant) |
| 屡遭 (屢遭) | lǚ zāo | to suffer repeatedly |
| 遭罪 | zāo zuì | to endure hardship; to suffer |
| 遭难 (遭難) | zāo nàn | to run into misfortune |
English words written with 遭
遭 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 13
- Mencius 5A.8
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Zhuangzi Lieh Tzŭ
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.