(yù dào) - meet, encounter, run into in Mandarin

yùdào

Traditional: 遇到

HSK 4

#783 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

meet, encounter, run into

Word origin

A compound of 遇 (yù, 'to meet, encounter') and 到 (dào, 'to arrive, reach'), a resultative verb meaning 'to run into'. 遇 is a phono-semantic compound of 辶 (movement radical) with 禺 as phonetic; 到 combines 至 (zhì, 'to arrive') with 刂.

Origin: compound
Root: 遇 (yù, 'to meet'; 辶 movement + 禺 phonetic) + 到 (dào, 'to arrive')

Stroke order

遇

到

Examples

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I ran into him on the street.

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She encountered trouble.

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We ran into a problem.

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I bumped into an old friend at the station today.

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遇到 (yù dào) means meet, encounter, run into. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

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This word is part of lesson 16.