zāo
遭 (zāo) is a Chinese word meaning “to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident”.
Meanings
- 1to meet by chance (usually with misfortune)
- 2classifier for events: time, turn, incident
Related words
遭到to suffer遭遇to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship)遭受to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)遭殃to suffer a calamity惨遭to suffer (defeat, death etc)免遭to avoid suffering遭遇战(military) encounter遭难to run into misfortune遭逢to encounter (sth unpleasant)周遭surrounding屋漏更遭连夜雨when it rains, it pours (idiom)屡遭to suffer repeatedly