# 遭

| 遭 | U+906D, &#36973; 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 3530$_6$, 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
### 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsluː) : semantic 辶 (“movement”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – to meet with (on the road).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zāo (zao$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zou$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chô
* Eastern Min (BUC): cŏ̤
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cho͘ / cho / chau
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$tsau
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zāo
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄠ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zao
*** Wade–Giles: tsao$^1$
*** Yale: dzāu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzau
*** Palladius: цзао (czao)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zou$^1$
*** Yale: jōu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzou$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zou$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sou̯⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chô
*** Hakka Romanization System: zo$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡so²⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: cŏ̤
*** Sinological IPA : /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/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$tsau
*** MiniDict: tsau$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$tsau
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: tsaw
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 | zou$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*tsˤu/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluː/
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/ |

### Definitions

遭
* to come across; to meet with; to encounter
* 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
* 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 | 遭󠄁 遭+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 遭󠄃 遭+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* To meet with; To encounter by chance; To come across (unfavorably)
* To encounter a bad experience.
* To have an accident

#### Readings

* Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
* Kun: あう (au, 遭う, Jōyō)

### References

* ↑ “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

Wikisource 遭 (eumhun 만날 조 (mannal jo))
* 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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