遇

Translingual

Stroke order

Mainland China and Japan

Han character

遇 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 1261, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38991
• Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3857, character 16
• Unihan data for U+9047

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Chinese

trad.		遇
simp. #		遇
alternative 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

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): йү (yü, III)

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

  (Hokkien, POJ): gū / gī / bū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁶

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶gnu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: йү (yü, III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gū
    • Tâi-lô: gū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gu
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gī
    • Tâi-lô: gī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bū
    • Tâi-lô: bū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bu
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngo⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngŏ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶gnu
    • MiniDict: nyu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nyu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjuH

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
Baxter	ngjuH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu6

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 遇

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

Synonyms

• 遭 (zāo, “to meet, to encounter”)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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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)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 遇 (ngộ)

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