遇

1. The Encounter (Event): To meet, come across, or happen upon. Generally denotes an incidental or unplanned meeting, including temporal encounters (e.g., 遇時).

2. The Treatment (Condition): The manner in which someone is received or dealt with; hospitality, reception, or general treatment.

• vs 會 (huì): While both involve coming together, 會 often implies a planned gathering, convergence of purpose, or mutual agreement, whereas 遇 leans toward the accidental or external encounter.
• vs 見 (jiàn): 見 is primarily the act of seeing or perceiving; one may perceive someone without actually encountering them.

Tang-period reading: *ngiò; Fanqie: 牛具. The glyph is stable with no significant variants affecting the primary lexical range.

In constructions such as 遇之以... (“encountered/treated him with...”), determine from context whether the sense is narrative/spatial (happening upon someone) or ethical/diplomatic (treating someone by means of a certain behavior).