What 侥 means
It signals luck you did not earn. In 侥幸, pronounced jiao-xing in Mandarin, the result is unearned or narrowly avoided: a pass, an escape, a win you cannot count on repeating. 侥幸心理 names the mindset of banking on that luck again.
The Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, records 僥 in 焦僥, a name for a short southern people. Later lexicons add a seek-or-hope sense and link 侥 with near-sounding 徼. Modern simplified Chinese writes the luck sense as 侥; traditional text keeps 僥.
Treat 侥 as context-dependent written Chinese; 侥幸 is the clearest modern reading.
In traditional Chinese text, write 僥, not the simplified 侥.
Who writes 侥
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1Why does 侥 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 侥
- Also called
- 僥
- Search it as
- 侥幸 · 僥倖 · jiaoxing · jiao
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
侥\4FA5Codes and encoding1 code points
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