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遭遇 encounter
Stroke order
遭遇 is written in 26 strokes across 2 characters.

- 遭 — 14 strokes
- 遇 — 12 strokes
Senses
- to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship)
- an experience (esp. adverse)
Characters in 遭遇
- 遭 zāo — to suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- 遇 yù — (bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Related words
遭遇 is pronounced zāoyù and means “encounter”.