U+4FA5 "侥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4FA5 "侥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is a simplified form of the traditional character 僥, and it is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese. Its primary meanings include "lucky" or "fortunate," and it appears in words such as 侥幸 (jiǎoxìng), which means "luckily" or "by chance," often carrying a nuance of undeserved fortune or a fluke. This character is composed of the radical 亻 (person) on the left, indicating a human element, and the component 尧 (yáo) on the right, which provides phonetic guidance. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a shared writing system across these East Asian languages, though its usage and pronunciation vary, and in Japanese it can be read as ぎょう (gyō) in certain compounds.