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(yù) - meet, encounter, treat (bound) in Mandarin

Traditional: 遇

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Translation

meet, encounter, treat (bound)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the walking radical 辶 gives the sense of movement and meeting on the way, while 禺 (yú) supplies the sound.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
辶 (walk radical) + 禺 (yú, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 遇

Examples

I ran into an old friend.

I met her yesterday.

His treatment is good.

He met his teacher on the way.

Such fine weather is rare to come across.

遇 (yù) means encounter, heading 遇到 (yùdào, run into) and 遇见 (yùjiàn, meet).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 遇.

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This word is part of lesson 107.