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周遭

zhōu zāo

2-character word

What 周遭 means

1. surrounding
2. nearby

The characters in 周遭

• 周zhōuto make a circuit; to circle; circle
• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident

Example sentences

• 我们一出生在这个世界上，就会开始受到周遭环境的影响，从生物单位慢慢进化成社会单位。
  Wǒmen yī chūshēng zài zhège shìjiè shàng, jiù huì kāishǐ shòudào zhōuzāo huánjìng de yǐngxiǎng, cóng shēngwù dānwèi mànmàn jìnhuà chéng shèhuì dānwèi.
  As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.