What 遭 means
遭 means to encounter, often with an unwelcome result. In Mandarin, 遭遇 means “encounter,” 遭受 means “suffer or undergo,” and 周遭 means “surroundings.”
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary completed in 121 CE, explains 遭 as “meet”: 辵 signals movement and 曹 supplies the sound.
In Mandarin, 遭 gives an encounter an adverse cast.
For a routine meeting, 遭 can sound like bad news.
Don't confuse it with
1会う
遭う vs 会う: In Japanese, 遭う marks misfortune; 会う is the usual word for meeting.
Combination ideas
3encounter
suffer or undergo
surroundings
Questions people ask
1Why does 遭 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 遭
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 906D, then Alt+X to get 遭.
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-906d”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 906d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
遭CSS
\906DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
遭
HTML hex
遭
CSS content
content: "\906D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%81%AD
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.