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Kanji Detail for 遭 - "to encounter, to meet, to experience"

遭

  • Meaning

    遭 means "to encounter, to meet, to experience."

    1. Encounter - To meet unexpectedly.

    2. Experience - To undergo; to go through.

    3. Meet - To come across; to face.

  • Words using 遭

    • 遭難 そうなん Listen (meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap

  • Tattoo check: 遭

    • Verified meaning: to encounter, to meet, to experience
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    encounter; meet; party; association; interview; join

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    come across, meet with, encounter

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to meet, to encounter, to come across

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To encounter. Meeting by chance unintentionally is called 遭. As in 遭逢意外 (encounter an accident). | To circle. As in 周遭, which means all around. | Like "time" or "occasion." As in something happening several times is called 幾遭.

  • Onyomi

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    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

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    a.u(あ-う) あ-う

    a.waseru(あ-わせる) あ-わせる

  • Strokes

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    14 strokes

  • Radical

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    辵 辶 (shinnyo・shinnyu)

  • Related Keywords

    to encounter to experience to meet frequency come across confront face undergo bump into chance upon discover find unexpectedly

Sentences including 遭

  • I had an accident at work.

  • We met her by accident.

  • He may have met with an accident on his way.

  • They lost their way in the mountain.

  • I had a hard time.

  • I met with a traffic accident on my way back.

  • He may have met with an accident on the way.

  • We were caught in a storm.

  • He had an accident on his way home.

  • I was recently in an automobile accident.

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