遭 (zāo) means Meet by chance (suffer - incident - a time). Below are 9 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他的 遭 遇让人同情。
Tā de zāoyù ràng rén tóngqíng.
What he went through arouses sympathy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭遇
他 遭 到了猛烈的批评。
Tā zāodào le měngliè de pīpíng.
He came in for fierce criticism.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 猛烈
他们 遭 到了突然袭击。
Tāmen zāodào le tūrán xíjī.
They came under sudden attack.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 袭击
他 遭 受了不小的打击。
Tā zāoshòu le bù xiǎo de dǎjī.
He suffered no small blow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭受
上面出错，下面 遭 殃。
Shàngmiàn chūcuò, xiàmiàn zāo yāng.
When those above blunder, those below suffer.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭殃
他们在路上 遭 遇了暴雨。
Tāmen zài lù shang zāoyù le bàoyǔ.
They ran into a rainstorm on the way.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭遇
台风一来，庄稼就 遭 殃了。
Táifēng yì lái, zhuāngjia jiù zāo yāng le.
When the typhoon came the crops suffered.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭殃
这个地区 遭 受了严重的旱灾。
Zhège dìqū zāoshòu le yánzhòng de hànzāi.
This region suffered a severe drought.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遭受
尽管 遭 到阻挠，工程还是完成了。
Jǐnguǎn zāodào zǔnáo, gōngchéng háishi wánchéng le.
Despite obstruction the project was completed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阻挠
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Words that contain 遭
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How is 遭 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 遭 (zāo, "Meet by chance (suffer - incident - a time)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 遭 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 遭 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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The dictionary page for 遭 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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