遇
meet, encounter, interview, treat, entertain, receive, deal with
Readings
On'yomi
- グウ
Kun'yomi
- あ.う
Meaning
遇 centers on coming into contact with someone or something: meeting, encountering, or receiving a person. The ideas of treating, entertaining, or dealing with someone grow naturally from that initial meeting.
Most common words using 遇
20 of 40- 遭遇そうぐうN1
encounter; running into; meeting with (e.g. an accident); being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)
- 待遇たいぐうN1
treatment; reception; service
- 優遇ゆうぐう
favorable treatment; favourable treatment; hospitality; warm reception; good treatment; hearty welcome
- 境遇きょうぐうN1
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
- 遇うあしらう
to treat; to handle; to deal with
- 処遇しょぐう
treatment (of a person); dealing with
- 奇遇きぐう
unexpected meeting; coincidence
- 不遇ふぐう
misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity
- 冷遇れいぐう
cold reception; inhospitality
- 厚遇こうぐう
cordial welcome; hearty welcome; kind treatment; hospitality
- 千載一遇せんざいいちぐう
once-in-a-lifetime (opportunity); golden (opportunity); one-in-a-million (chance)
- 最優遇さいゆうぐう
most favourable treatment; most favorable treatment; very warm reception
- 一遇いちぐう
one meeting
- 不遇をかこつふぐうをかこつ
to complain about one's hard lot
- 不遇時代ふぐうじだい
one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity
- 会遇かいぐう
meeting; happening across
- 値遇ちぐう
being appreciated by one's employer; meeting (someone)
- 優遇措置ゆうぐうそち
preferential treatment; privilege; favor; benefit; incentive
- 内国民待遇ないこくみんたいぐう
national treatment; treating foreigners and locals equally
- 前官礼遇ぜんかんれいぐう
(being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post
Study
Etymology
遇 combines 辶 (movement) with 禺, which likely contributes the sound. The idea is moving toward a meeting or encounter.
Meaning mnemonic
The movement radical 辶 wraps around 禺. Picture walking along a path and unexpectedly encountering someone: 遇 is that meeting.
Reading mnemonic
For グウ, imagine meeting a gooey creature on the path: goo -> グウ, and the encounter is sticky and memorable.