The kanji 遭: meaning, readings and stroke order
遭
- Meaning
- run into, meet with
- On reading
- ソウ sou
- Kun reading
- あ(う) au
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辵 walk
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- gặp phải (tao)
- Japanese
- ばったり であう。わるい ことに あう。
- Korean
- 마주치다, 당하다 (조)
- Chinese
- 遭遇、碰上
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading · less common
遭難
getting lost or hurt (in the mountains, at sea)
山で 遭難した 人を さがします。
People search for those who got lost in the mountains.
あ(う) au · kun reading
遭う
to run into (something bad)
帰りに 雨に 遭いました。
I got caught in the rain on my way home.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.