Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 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 accidentially a pair 偶.)

Radicals

辶 movement(In some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.)
禺 Scorpion
禸 track
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Vocabulary

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

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