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遭受

zāo shòu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

遭受 (zāo shòu) means "to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遭受 means

1. to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)

The characters in 遭受

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 受shòuto receive; to accept; to suffer

Example sentences

• 他遭受长颈鹿攻击。
  He was attacked by a giraffe.
• 公司遭受了巨大的损失。
  Gōngsī zāoshòu le jùdà de sǔnshī.
  The company suffered big losses.
• 番茄容易遭受很多病害。
  The tomato is subject to a number of diseases.
• 他正遭受严重头痛的困扰。
  Tā zhèng zāoshòu yánzhòng tóutòng de kùnrǎo.
  He was suffering from a bad headache.
• 日本非常容易遭受到地震。
  Japan is very subject to earthquakes.
• 遭受心脏病困扰的人数增加了。
  Zāoshòu xīnzàngbìng kùnrǎo de rénshù zēngjiā le.
  The number of people suffering from heart disease has increased.

Where 遭受 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zàn–zēng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāo shòu correctly.
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