Memory phrase for the character: 遇

遇

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Meaning

to meet, to encounter, opportunity, chance

Pronunciation

yù

Explanation

 Left: movement 辶, right: scorpion 禺 (image of a scorpion: combination of a carapace 田 of the insect 虫 with long legs 冂)

Mnemonic
 
(A mating/courtship ritual?) Movements of a scorpion with the opportunity to meet someone. (And then they 亻,禺 became accidentally a pair 偶.)

Radicals

辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
禺 ScorpionThe scorpion is the insect 虫 with the stinger ム between the long hind legs 冂.
禸 trackEtymologically this is derived from a trace, but is seen in the Hanzi-Trainer as the lower part of the scorpion 禺.




 Vocabulary

遇到 yù dào  to meet; to run into; to come across
 

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