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遇 — to encounter; to happen upon

to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned

Pinyin
yù · Yù
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — yù, Yù — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 遇: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

遇 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 遇 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 遇到yùdàoto meet; to run into; to come acrossHSK 3
  2. 遇见yùjiànto meetHSK 3
  3. 待遇dàiyùtreatment; pay; salary; status; rankHSK 5
  4. 机遇jīyùopportunity; favorable turn of events; stroke of luckHSK 6
  5. 遭遇zāoyùto meet with; to encounter; an experienceHSK 6
  6. 境遇jìngyùcircumstanceHSK 7–9
  7. 相遇xiāngyùto meet; to encounter; to come acrossHSK 7–9
  8. 遇难yùnànto perish; to be killedHSK 7–9
  9. 遇险yùxiǎnto get into difficulties; to meet with dangerHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.