遘

遘 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿廿月 (YTTB), four-corner 3530₅, composition ⿺辶冓)

• 𦾼

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1262, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39031
• Dae Jaweon: page 1756, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3869, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9058

Historical forms of the character 遘
Shang		Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːs, *koːs) : semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gow ~ *gaw, whence Jingpho gau (kau³³, “cross over”), Burmese ကူး (ku:, “to cross over”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007).

In Chinese, cognate with 覯 (OC *koːs, “to come across”), 姤 (OC *koːs, “gou (hexagram of the I Ching)”). Possible allofams in Chinese include 冓 (OC *koːs) in 中冓 (OC *tuŋ koː, “inner chamber”) and 購 (OC *koːs, “to award”). Compare 遇 (OC *ŋos, “to meet”).

遘

1. ^† to meet; to encounter

   • 史乃冊，祝曰：「惟爾元孫某，遘厲虐疾。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     史乃册，祝曰：「惟尔元孙某，遘厉虐疾。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Shǐ nǎi cè, zhù yuē: “Wéi ěr yuán sūn Mǒu, gòu lì nüè jí.” [Pinyin]

     The (grand) historiographer had written on tablets his prayer, which was to this effect: 'A. B., your great descendant, is suffering from a severe and violent disease'

2. Alternative form of 構／构 (gòu, “to create; to form”)

遘

1. (Min) Alternative form of 到 (dào)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: あう (au)

遘 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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