遭

遭	U+906D, 遭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-906D

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

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

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

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/

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	zou¹

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

Japanese

Shinjitai	遭
Kyūjitai ^[1]	遭󠄁 遭+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遭󠄃 遭+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
The displayed kanji may be different from the image due to your environment. See here for details.

Kanji

遭

(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)^{←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

^ “遭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 遭 (MC tsaw).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

遭

Wikisource

遭 (eumhun 만날 조 (mannal jo))

hanja form^? of 조 (“meet”)

Compounds

조우 (遭遇, jou)
조난 (遭難, jonan)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

遭: Hán Nôm readings: tao

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

[1] “遭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

[1]