U+4FA8 "侨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4FA8 "侨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to sojourn" or "to reside temporarily abroad," and it is most commonly used in modern contexts to refer to overseas Chinese communities or individuals living outside their home country. It consists of the radical 亻 (person) on the left, indicating a human-related meaning, and the phonetic component 乔 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "qiáo" in Mandarin. This character appears in words like "华侨" (huaqiao), meaning overseas Chinese, and "侨民" (qiaomin), meaning expatriates or foreign residents. Historically, it has been used in official and literary texts to describe migration or temporary residence, and today it remains a standard part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified character set, recognized across East Asian writing systems.