zāo
come across
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 曹 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zāo
come across, meet with, encounter; to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
Most common words with 遭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to meet by chance (usually with misfortune) | ||
to suffer | ||
to meet with | ||
to suffer | ||
to suffer (defeat, death etc) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tsˤu | tsaw | zāo | encounter (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 26.4616% of movies
1379th most common character in movies
1048th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+906D |
Shuowen | “遭，遇也。从辵，曹聲。一曰邐行。” |
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