僥

See also: 侥 and 徺

僥	U+50E5, 僥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50E5

← 僤
[U+50E4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僦 →
[U+50E6]

Translingual

Han character

僥 (radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人土土山 (OGGU), four-corner 2421₁, composition ⿰亻堯)

References

KangXi: page 117, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1113

Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 16

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 216, character 12

Unihan data for U+50E5

Chinese

trad.		僥
simp.		侥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僥

**Small seal script**
s05906

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L07629	L07630

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (垚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
撓	hŋaːw, rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
鐃	*rŋaːw
譊	*rŋaːw
橈	rŋaːws, ŋjew
磽	ŋ̊ʰreːw, ŋreːws, *ŋ̊ʰeːwʔ
墝	*ŋ̊ʰreːw
穘	*hŋreːw
顤	hŋreːw, ŋeːws
燒	hŋjew, hŋjaws
饒	ŋjew, ŋjaws
蟯	ŋjew, ʔŋew
蕘	*ŋjew
襓	*ŋjew
繞	ŋjewʔ, ŋjaws
遶	*ŋjewʔ
嬈	njewʔ, neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
趬	ŋ̊ʰew, ŋ̊ʰews
蹺	*ŋ̊ʰew
翹	ɡew, ɡews
澆	ŋkeːw, ŋeːws
驍	*ŋkeːw
僥	kŋeːwʔ, ŋeːw
堯	*ŋeːw
垚	*ŋeːw
嶢	*ŋeːw
獟	*ŋeːws
膮	hŋeːw, hŋeːwʔ
嘵	*hŋeːw
憢	*hŋeːw
曉	*hŋeːwʔ
皢	*hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw) : semantic 人 (“man”) + phonetic 堯 (OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiǎo (jiao³)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hiu¹, giu², giu¹
Min Nan (POJ): hiau / kiáu / kiau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˇ
  - Wade–Giles: chiao³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeau
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hiu¹, giu², giu¹
  - Yale: hīu, gíu, gīu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hiu¹, giu², giu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hiu¹, giu², giu¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hiːu̯⁵⁵/, /kiːu̯³⁵/, /kiːu̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiau
  - Tâi-lô: hiau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiaw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiaʊ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiaʊ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiáu
  - Tâi-lô: kiáu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiao
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiaʊ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kiaʊ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiau
  - Tâi-lô: kiau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiaw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kiaʊ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiaʊ³³/

Note:

hiau - vernacular;
kiáu/kiau - literary.

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤewʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*kŋeːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	僥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ kew^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁewʔ/
English	luck
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僥
Reading #	1/2
No.	14687
Phonetic component	垚
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kŋeːwʔ/
Notes	僥倖見莊子

Definitions

僥

lucky
by chance; by luck

Compounds

僥倖／侥幸
僥傒／侥傒

僥幸／侥幸 (jiǎoxìng)

僥競／侥竞

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yáo (yao²)
(Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: yáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
  - Wade–Giles: yao²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
  - IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jiu⁴
  - Yale: yìuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ŋeu/▼

Rime
Character	僥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五聊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋeu/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋeu/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋeu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛw/
Li Rong	/ŋeu/
Wang Li	/ŋieu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僥
Reading #	2/2
No.	14691
Phonetic component	垚
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	堯
Old Chinese	/*ŋeːw/

Definitions

僥

Only used in 僬僥／僬侥.

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiāo (jiao¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: chiao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

僥

^† fake

Japanese

Kanji

僥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}

Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}

Kan’yō-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}

Kun: ねがう (negau, 僥う); もとめる (motomeru, 僥める)

Korean

Hanja

僥 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僥 (nghẹo)

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