遭 zāo
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 曹 ministers, officials
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
遭殃
zāoyāng
to suffer disaster; to be in trouble
Characters in this word
殃 yāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 歹 — corpse
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 上游水库调度失误，下游几个村庄最先遭殃。 Shàngyóu shuǐkù diàodù shīwù, xiàyóu jǐ ge cūnzhuāng zuìxiān zāoyāng. Because of a scheduling error at the upstream reservoir, several downstream villages suffered first.
- 家里水管一爆，楼下的邻居可遭殃了。 Jiālǐ shuǐguǎn yī bào, lóuxià de línjū kě zāoyāng le. When the water pipe burst at home, the neighbour downstairs really got it bad.
- 一场大雨让庄稼遭殃，农民们只好加紧排水。 Yī chǎng dàyǔ ràng zhuāngjia zāoyāng, nóngmínmen zhǐhǎo jiājǐn páishuǐ. A heavy rain ruined the crops, so the farmers had to hurry to drain the water.
Related words
- 遭到 zāodào to suffer, to meet with
- 遭受 zāoshòu to suffer, to endure
- 遭遇 zāoyù to encounter; fate, luck
- 挣扎 zhēngzhá to struggle; to flounder; to strive painfully
- 要害 yàohài vital point; crux
- 肇事 zhàoshì to cause an accident; to be responsible for an incident
- 要命 yàomìng fatal; to cost someone their life
- 致命 zhìmìng fatal; deadly; lethal
- 撞击 zhuàngjī to strike; to impact; impact
- 坠落 zhuìluò to fall; to plunge down
- 坠 zhuì to fall; to drop; a pendant
- 摇摇欲坠 yáoyáoyùzhuì to be on the verge of collapse; tottering