Chinese Character Wiki

僥

jiǎo

be lucky

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

堯 sound component

堯  Sound component

yáo

  

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Evolution

僥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
僥 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
僥 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
僥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

侥 (僥) 

jiǎo

be lucky; by chance, by luck; by mere luck

Most common words with 僥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

侥幸

luckily

侥

by mere luck

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤewʔ

kewX

jiǎo

luck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8581% of movies

3160th most common character in movies

3359th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

侥

Unicode

U+50E5

Shuowen

“僥，南方有焦僥，人長三尺，短之極。从人，堯聲。”


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