Jisho

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14 strokes (also 13)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
Variants:
encounter, meet, party, association, interview, join
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1554 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 遭難 【ソウナン】 (meeting with) disaster, (having an) accident, mishap, shipwreck, distress
  • 遭遇 【ソウグウ】 encounter, running into, meeting with (e.g. an accident), being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)

Kun reading compounds

  • 会う 【あう】 to meet, to encounter, to see, to have an accident, to have a bad experience
  • 会わせる 【あわせる】 to make (someone) to meet, to let (someone) meet, to expose to, to subject to

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zao1
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • encontrarse con
  • reunirse
  • toparse

Portuguese

  • encontro
  • reunião
  • festa
  • associação
  • entrevista
  • unir

French

  • rencontre
  • mauvaise rencontre
  • parti
  • association
  • entrevue
  • joindre
1526 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1173 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4736 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1376 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1817 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1643 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1756 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1750 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
717 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3917 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2019 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2725 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1182 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39082P Morohashi
3159 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6105 New Nelson (John Haig)
1174 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1258 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1733 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1978 2001 Kanji
2q11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-11 SKIP code
3530.6 Four corner code
1-33-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
906d Unicode hex code

10 strokes (also 9 and 11)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
meeting, tryst, date, rendezvous
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2116 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 逢着 【ホウチャク】 encountering, facing, being confronted with, coming upon
  • 遭逢 【ソウホウ】 meeting by chance, running into, coming upon, encounter

Kun reading compounds

  • 会う 【あう】 to meet, to encounter, to see, to have an accident, to have a bad experience
  • 逢うは別れの始め 【あうはわかれのはじめ】 we meet only to part, meeting is the first step to parting

Readings

Japanese names:
あい、 おう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng2
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • encuentro
  • cita
  • encuentro casual
  • encontrarse
  • reunirse
  • citarse
  • verse por casualidad

Portuguese

French

4694 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1516 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4002 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2774 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
38901X Morohashi
6054 New Nelson (John Haig)
2417 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2497 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2555 2001 Kanji
2q7.15 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
3-4-7 SKIP code
3730.4 Four corner code
1-16-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9022 Unicode hex code