What 遘 means
It means “encounter,” and sometimes “cause” or “bring about.”
Its ancestor appears in Shang-period oracle-bone and bronze forms. 冓 supplied the idea of two things meeting; adding 辵 marked movement into an encounter, followed by seal, clerical, and regular forms. Classical texts use 遘 for meeting or undergoing an event; dictionaries also record 遘 as 構, “make/cause.” It is close to 遇 and 逢, and linked to 姤 and 覯 through variant or borrowed uses.
Literary and old-fashioned; use 遇 for ordinary “encounter” wording.
Its “cause” sense can reverse the reading of 遘患.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 遘 change shape in fonts?
It can. As of 2026, regional CJK fonts may draw the same code point differently.
How to type 遘
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9058, then Alt+X to get 遘.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-9058”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9058, then Enter or Space.
HTML
遘CSS
\9058Pinyin
Try gou4; select 遘 from the candidates.
Windows IME
Type U+9058 then Alt+X in Word; as of 2026, this is the fallback.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
遘
HTML hex
遘
CSS content
content: "\9058";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%81%98
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.