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zāo

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zāo
  1. 1.to meet by chance (usually with misfortune)
  2. 2.classifier for events: time, turn, incident

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to come across; to meet with; to encounter
  2. 2.to suffer; to be subjected to; passive voice marker (for negative events)
  3. 3.Classifier for number of occurrences of events: times; turns
  4. 4.to walk around

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsluː): semantic 辶 (“movement”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – to meet with (on the road).

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