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遭う

JLPT N2 · Vocabulary

遭う — “to meet with, to encounter, to run into (something bad)”

遭う (read あう) means to meet with, to encounter, to run into (something bad). It appears on the JLPT N2 vocabulary list and is a verb.

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あう

Meaning

to meet with, to encounter, to run into (something bad)

遭う in a sentence

事故じこに遭うあう。

To have an accident.

The kanji in 遭う

遭to encounter (something bad)

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