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遭到

zāo dào

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

遭到 (zāo dào) means "to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 遭到 means

1. to suffer
2. to meet with (sth unfortunate)

The characters in 遭到

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 到dàoto reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)

Example sentences

• 他的房子遭到雷击。
  Tā de fángzi zāodào léijī.
  His house was struck by lightning.
• 这棵大树遭到雷击。
  Zhè kē Dàshù zāodào léijī.
  The big tree was struck by lightning.
• 我的问题遭到了冷寂的沉默。
  Wǒ de wèntí zāodào le lěngjì de chénmò.
  My questions were met with a frosty silence.
• 我们的房子去年夏天遭到闯入。
  Our house was broken into last summer.
• 市长一家人一整天不断遭到了恐吓电话的骚扰。
  Shìzhǎng yījiārén yī zhěngtiān bù duàn zāodào le kǒnghè diànhuà de sāorǎo.
  The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.

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