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僥

僥

僥 U+50E5, 僥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50E5
← 僤
[U+50E4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僦 →
[U+50E6]
See also: 侥 and 徺

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
Large seal script

L07629

L07630
Small seal script

s05906
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 (large seal) and
  • Xu 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 *ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
墝 *ŋ̥ʰreːw
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 *ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
蹺 *ŋ̥ʰew
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

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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 僥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤewʔ/
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 僥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14687 14691
Phonetic
component		 垚 垚
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 堯
Old
Chinese		 /*kŋeːwʔ/ /*ŋeːw/
Notes 僥倖見莊子

Definitions

僥

  1. lucky
  2. by chance, by luck

Japanese

Kanji

僥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

僥 (nghẹo)

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