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遭遇

zāo yù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

遭遇 (zāo yù) means "to encounter (something bad); an ordeal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遭遇 means

1. to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship)
2. an experience (esp. adverse)

The characters in 遭遇

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 遇yù(bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat…

Example sentences

• 汤姆遭遇了诈骗。
  Tom got catfished.
• 马德里竞技遭遇失败后，很明显大家都很生气。
  Mǎdélǐ jìngjì zāoyù shībài hòu, hěn míngxiǎn dàjiā dōu hěn shēngqì.
  It was evident that everyone was upset when Atletico Madrid suffered defeat.
• 他的人缘向来很好，因此一旦遭遇急难，朋友都乐意帮忙。
  Tā de rényuán xiànglái hěn hǎo, yīncǐ yīdàn zāoyù jínàn, péngyou dōu lèyì bāngmáng.
  He is very popular, so whenever you find yourself in trouble, his friends will be happy to help.
• 我们会遭遇挫折和不成功的起步。我作为总统所做的每项决定或政策，会有许多人持有异议，我们也知道，政府不能解决所有问题。
  Wǒmen huì zāoyù cuòzhé hé bù chénggōng de qǐbù. wǒ zuòwéi zǒngtǒng suǒ zuò de měi xiàng juédìng huò zhèngcè, huì yǒu xǔduō rén chíyǒu yìyì, wǒmen yě zhīdào, zhèngfǔ bù néng jiějué suǒyǒu wèntí.
  There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
• 在所有童话故事里出现的女巫中，没有一个比沙女巫更讨人喜欢、更善于交际了。这位女巫住在海边堆积如山的沙子下面，夏天的时候，人们会在那里用铲子挖沙。她和其他女巫完全不同。她从不骑扫帚，也从不钻烟囱。首先，海滩上根本没有扫帚和烟囱；其次，就算有，她也不知道怎么骑扫帚或钻烟囱。沙女巫只会做一件事：遇到害怕的东西就钻进沙里；遇到不认识的人，就从沙子里钻出来。现在你知道沙女巫是什么了吧。七岁的小詹克斯被晒得通红，如果他知道你所知道的一切，那么在七月一个炎热的早晨，当他突然遭遇这场突如其来的灾难时，他就能更好地应对了。
  Of all the witches that may be found in all the fairy tales ever told there is none more delightfully sociable than the Sand Witch. This Witch, who lives underneath the heaps of sand at the ocean's edge, where, in the summertime, you dig with your shovel, is not at all like other witches. She never rides on a broomstick, and she never goes down chimneys. In the first place there are no broomsticks or chimneys on the beach at the sea-shore, and in the second place she would not know how to ride on a broomstick or climb down a chimney, if there were. All the Sand Witch knows how to do is to sink into the sand when anything scares her, and to come up through the sand when she sees a chance to get acquainted with a person she never was acquainted with before. So now you know what a Sand Witch is. And if Junior Jenks, seven years old, and dreadfully sunburnt, had known what you know, he would have been much better prepared to face the one that came up right under his nose all of a sudden one hot July morning.

Words starting with 遭遇

• 遭遇战zāo yù zhàn(military) encounter; skirmish

Where 遭遇 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 yù correctly.
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