遭う
あう · au · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to encounter
☔ あう sounds like Ow! — the kind of meeting that hurts
Same sound as 会う (to meet), but 遭う is for bad luck: 事故に遭う, to have an accident; 雨に遭う, to get caught in the rain. The 辶 radical on the left means road or movement, so it is something you run into along the way.