遇

遇 U+9047, 遇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9047 ← 遆 [U+9046] CJK Unified Ideographs 遈 → [U+9048]

Translingual

Stroke order

Mainland China and Japan

Han character

遇 (radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜田中月 (YWLB), four-corner 3630₂, composition ⿺辶禺)

Derived characters

• 𢡎, 𣜛, 𬩔, 𥴪

References

• KangXi: page 1261, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38991
• Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3857, character 16
• Unihan data for U+9047

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		遇
variant forms		迂 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
齵	*ŋoː, *ŋo
偶	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	*ŋo, *ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngi
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): gū / gī / bū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi⁴
    • IPA: /ɲi⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gū
    • Tâi-lô: gū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gu
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /gu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /gu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /gu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gī
    • Tâi-lô: gī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /gi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bū
    • Tâi-lô: bū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bu
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngo⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngŏ
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋo³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɨo^H/▼

Rime
Character	遇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	牛具切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuə̆H/
Li Rong	/ŋioH/
Wang Li	/ŋĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋos/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjuH ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)o-s/
English	meet with
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	遇
Reading #	1/1
No.	15929
Phonetic component	禺
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遇
Old Chinese	/*ŋos/

Definitions

遇

1. to meet; to come across; to encounter
2. 43rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "encounters" (𝌰)

Synonyms

• 遭 (zāo, “to meet, to encounter”)

Compounds

• 不期而遇 (bùqī'éryù)
• 不遇
• 值遇
• 備受禮遇／备受礼遇
• 優惠待遇／优惠待遇
• 優遇／优遇 (yōuyù)
• 冷遇 (lěngyù)
• 千載一遇／千载一遇 (qiānzǎiyīyù)
• 厚遇 (hòuyù)
• 境遇 (jìngyù)
• 外遇 (wàiyù)
• 天緣奇遇／天缘奇遇
• 奇遇 (qíyù)
• 宿遇
• 寵遇／宠遇
• 將遇良才／将遇良才
• 巧遇 (qiǎoyù)
• 差別待遇／差别待遇
• 待遇 (dàiyù)
• 恩遇
• 意遇
• 感遇
• 懷才不遇／怀才不遇 (huái cái bù yù)
• 時遇／时遇

• 景遇
• 機遇／机遇 (jīyù)
• 殊遇
• 特惠待遇
• 生不遇時／生不遇时
• 百不一遇
• 百年不遇 (bǎiniánbùyù)
• 相遇 (xiāngyù)
• 眷遇
• 知遇 (zhīyù)
• 知遇之恩
• 神遇
• 禮遇／礼遇 (lǐyù)
• 精神外遇
• 累進處遇／累进处遇
• 良遇
• 萍水相遇
• 視遇／视遇
• 詭遇／诡遇
• 豔遇／艳遇 (yànyù)
• 身不遇時／身不遇时
• 輳遇／辏遇
• 逢時遇節／逢时遇节
• 遇上 (yùshàng)

• 遇事生風／遇事生风
• 遇人不淑 (yùrénbùshū)
• 遇便
• 遇到 (yùdào)
• 遇刺 (yùcì)
• 遇合
• 遇害 (yùhài)
• 遇救
• 遇物持平
• 遇缺不補／遇缺不补
• 遇見／遇见 (yùjiàn)
• 遇險／遇险 (yùxiǎn)
• 遇難／遇难 (yùnàn)
• 遇難成祥／遇难成祥
• 遭時不遇／遭时不遇
• 遭遇 (zāoyù)
• 遭遇戰／遭遇战
• 邂逅相遇
• 際遇／际遇
• 隨遇平衡／随遇平衡
• 隨遇而安／随遇而安 (suíyù'ér'ān)
• 顧遇／顾遇
• 齒遇／齿遇

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Japanese

Kanji

遇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. interview
2. treat
3. entertain
4. receive
5. deal with

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
• Kun: あう (au, 遇う); もてなす (motenasu, 遇す); たまたま (tamatama, 遇)

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Korean

Hanja

遇 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遇 (ngộ)

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