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遭

遭

Translingual

Han character

遭 (radical 162 辵+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田日 (YTWA), four-corner 35306)

  1. come across, meet with, encounter

References

  • KangXi: page 1264, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39082
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1759, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3875, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+906D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 遭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遭
Large seal script Small seal script
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, OC *ʔsluː) : semantic 辶 ‎(“movement”) + phonetic 曹 ‎(OC *zluː) – to meet with (on the road).

Pronunciation

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡saw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sɑu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 遭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsaw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tsˤu/
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

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Japanese

Kanji

遭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

遭 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遭 (tao)

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