| 遭到 | zāo dào | to suffer; to meet with (sth unfortunate) |
| 遭 | zāo | to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident |
| 遭受 | zāo shòu | to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune) |
| 惨遭 | cǎn zāo | suffer |
| 遭殃 | zāo yāng | to suffer a calamity |
| 遭遇 | zāo yù | to meet with; to encounter; (bitter) experience |
| 免遭 | miǎn zāo | to avoid suffering; to avoid meeting (a fatal accident); spared |
| 周遭 | zhōu zāo | surrounding, nearby |
| 屡遭 | lǚ zāo | to suffer repeatedly |
| 屡遭不测 | lǚ zāo bù cè | beset by a series of mishaps (idiom) |
| 惨遭不幸 | cǎn zāo bù xìng | to meet with disaster; to die tragically |
| 遭拒 | zāo jù | to meet with a refusal (e.g. visa); to have an application rejected |
| 遭瘟 | zāo wēn | to suffer from a plague; to endure a misfortune; a plague on him! |
| 遭罪 | zāo zuì | to endure; to suffer hardships; hard time; nuisance |
| 遭难 | zāo nàn | to run into misfortune |