Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zāo
English
- come across, meet with, encounter
- to suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune)
- classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- (of disasters or misfortune) to suffer
粵語
- 俾；被；通常係一啲不幸嘅事
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 遭
- 遭殃zou1 joeng1
to suffer a calamity
- 遭受zou1 sau6
to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- 遭遇zou1 jyu6
to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship)
- 周遭zau1 zou1
surrounding
- 遭逢zou1 fung4
to encounter (sth unpleasant)
- 遭難zou1 naan6
to run into misfortune
- 遭罪zou1 zeoi6
to endure hardship
- 遭到zou1 dou3
to suffer
- 遭重zou1 cung5
(slang) to suffer serious consequences or harm
- 遭瘟zou1 wan1
to suffer from a plague
- 慘遭caam2 zou1
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
- 遭拒zou1 keoi5
to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa)
- 免遭min5 zou1
to avoid suffering
- 遭際zou1 zai3
(literary) fortunes and misfortunes; experiences in life
- 遭襲zou1 zaap6
- 遭劫zou1 gip3
to be robbed
- 屢遭leoi5 zou1
to suffer repeatedly
- 遭遇戰zou1 jyu6 zin3
(military) encounter
- 慘遭不幸caam2 zou1 bat1 hang6
to meet with disaster
- 遭蝦戲zou1 haa1 hei3
- 慘遭毒害caam2 zou1 duk6 hoi6
- 慘遭橫禍caam2 zou1 waang6 wo6
- 險遭毒手him2 zou1 duk6 sau2
- 險遭不測him2 zou1 bat1 cak1