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HSK 6
HSK 6
HSK 6
遭
zāo
1.
to meet by chance (usually with misfortune)
2.
classifier for events: time, turn, incident
Very Common • Top 4%
✏️ 15 strokes
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (17)
免遭
miǎnzāo
to avoid suffering
周遭
zhōuzāo
surrounding
屡遭
lǚzāo
to suffer repeatedly
惨遭
cǎnzāo
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
遭到
zāodào
to suffer
遭受
zāoshòu
to suffer
遭拒
zāojù
to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa)
遭殃
zāoyāng
to suffer a calamity
遭瘟
zāowēn
to suffer from a plague
遭罪
zāozuì
to endure
遭逢
zāoféng
to encounter (sth unpleasant)
遭遇
zāoyù
to meet with
遭难
zāonàn
to run into misfortune
屡遭不测
lǚzāobùcè
beset by a series of mishaps (idiom)
惨遭不幸
cǎnzāobùxìng
to meet with disaster
屋漏更遭连夜雨
wūlòugèngzāoliányèyǔ
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
破屋又遭连夜雨
pòwūyòuzāoliányèyǔ
see [[屋漏偏逢連夜雨|屋漏偏逢连夜雨<wūlòupiānféngliányèyǔ>]]
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,047
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,681 of 84,292