| zāo | meet by chance (usually with misfortune)/classifier for events: time, turn, incident |
| 遭 | to meet by chance (usually with misfortune) classifier for events: time, turn, incident |
| 遭到 | to suffer to meet with (sth unfortunate) |
| 遭劫 | catastrophe; meet with a catastrophe |
| 遭受 | to suffer to sustain (loss, misfortune) |
| 遭拒 | to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa) to have an application rejected |
| 遭殃 | to suffer a calamity |
| 遭灾 | bet hit by a natural calamity |
| 遭瘟 | to suffer from a plague to endure a misfortune a plague on him! |
| 遭罪 | to endure to suffer hardships hard time |
| 遭逢 | meet with; sustain |
| 遭遇 | to meet with to encounter (bitter) experience |
| 遭遇不幸 | to meet with misfortune |
| 遭遇战 | unexpected meeting engagement; rencontre; rencounter; encounter; meeting engagement; military encounter |
| 遭际 | circumstances; lot; meet with; encounter; run up against |
| 遭难 | to run into misfortune |