逅
hòu

meet unexpectedly

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 后 represents the sound.

Components

辶
辶 Meaning component
chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

后
后 Sound component
hòu queen, after

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthuwH[ɡ]ˤro-s邂逅 xièhòu carefree (Odes 94.1– 2, 118.2)
Zhengzhangɡoːs
Unicodehòu

說文解字

邂逅也。从辵后聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)