| Kanji | 遭 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | ソウ |
| Kunyomi | あ.う、あ.わせる |
| English | encounter, meet, party, association, interview, join |
| Examples | 遭難(そうなん): disaster; shipwreck; accident; being stranded |
| JLPT Level | 1 |
| Jouyou Grade | S |
| Frequency | 1554 |
| Components | 曹: cadet; friend 辶: walk; walking; road radical variant (no. 162) |
| Number of Strokes | 14 |
| Kanji Radical | 辵 |
| Radical Number | 162 |
| Radical Strokes | 7 |
| Radical Reading | しんにょう・しんにゅう |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
| Keyword | encounter |
| Koohii Story 1 | Close encounters of the third kind. The space cadet encounters aliens on the road. |
| Koohii Story 2 | Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) has an "encounter of the third kind" on the road. Reference to Steven Spielberg´s 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Also a reference to popular stories of people reportedly chased by UFO´s while driving on the road. |
Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000
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