遭
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to suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辵 +11
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 遭
- Common rank
- #2,421
- Unicode
- U+906D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
meet with · Heisig RSH #2236
cadet + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 遭
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破题儿第一遭 | (coll.) one's first time ever experiencing sth (esp. sth notable or unusual) | |
| 屋漏更遭连夜雨 | when it rains, it pours (idiom) | |
| 破屋又遭连夜雨 | see 屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨[wu1 lou4 pian1 feng2 lian2 ye4 yu3] | |
| 遭重 | (slang) to suffer serious consequences or harm | |
| 遭难 | to run into misfortune | |
| 遭遇战 | (military) encounter; skirmish | |
| 周遭 | surrounding; nearby | |
| 遭受 | to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune) | |
| 惨遭不幸 | to meet with disaster; to die tragically | |
| 遭到 | to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate) | |
| 遭罪 | to endure hardship; to suffer | |
| 遭际 | (literary) fortunes and misfortunes; experiences in life | |
| 免遭 | to avoid suffering; to avoid meeting (a fatal accident); spared | |
| 遭遇 | to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse) | |
| 惨遭 | to suffer (defeat, death etc) | |
| 遭逢 | to encounter (sth unpleasant) | |
| 遭拒 | to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa); to have an application rejected | |
| 屡遭 | to suffer repeatedly | |
| 遭瘟 | to suffer from a plague; to endure a misfortune; a plague on him! | |
| 遭殃 | to suffer a calamity |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曹 — compare how they read.