Meaning & readings
meet, encounter, interview, treat, entertain, receive, deal with
Origin
The character 遇 combines the "walk" or "movement" radical on the left, which suggests traveling or going somewhere, with the sound component 禺 on the right, which hints at the pronunciation. Together these elements create a character meaning to meet or encounter—the idea of two people traveling or moving toward each other and coming together. The "movement" aspect makes sense because meeting typically involves people going to a place or coming toward one another. Over time, the meaning expanded to include receiving or entertaining someone, since encounters often involve such interactions.
Components
- 禺
- ⻌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1343 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+09047