TREAT; ENCOUNTER

遇　グウ　あ（う）

JY F1379 3135
treat, entertain, receive, deal with
待遇・たいぐう・treat, receive, entertain
処遇・しょぐう・treat, deal with
冷遇・れいぐう・cold treatment, frigid reception
知遇・ちぐう・warm friendship
優遇・ゆうぐう・prefer, treat favorably
encounter, happen to meet, come across
遭遇・そうぐう・encounter, come across
奇遇・きぐう・chance encounter
fate, luck, one's lot
不遇・ふぐう・misfortune, ill luck
INDEPENDENT
遇する・ぐうする treat, entertain
KUN
遇う・あう・come across, be confronted by

"Movement along road" plus an obscure character often lending a meaning of "not clear" or "not open". This character has an obscure etymology, with an old form being a clawless scorpion with a twisting tail. The idea of twisting may then have led to "convoluted" and hence the meaning of not clear or not open.

This kanji itself is a development of the 偶　in 偶然　and came to mean "meet by chance while moving along a road", but then ironically lost the sense of meeting by chance and instead came to meet, and then to meet and treat until it acquired its current meaning.

TEST SECTION
treat, receive, entertain
treat, deal with
cold treatment, frigid reception
warm friendship
prefer, treat favorably
encounter, come across
chance encounter
misfortune, ill luck
treat, entertain
come across, be confronted by