What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 遭遇 mean?

遭遇 zāoyù

to encounter; to run into; experience; lot (usually bad)

Its characters

  1. 遭 zāo to meet with (disaster or misfortune)
  2. 遇 yù to meet

In a sentence

我们在路上遭遇了大雨。 We ran into heavy rain on the way.

没想到,他们出发不久就遭遇了匈奴骑兵,全部成了俘虏,在匈奴那里一待就是十年左右。

From 丝绸之路是什么? · What was the Silk Road?

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