U+8BB5 "讵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BB5 "讵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "how" or "to express surprise or rhetorical questioning," often used in classical or literary contexts to imply "how could it be that" or "unexpectedly." It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical for "speech" (讠) on the left and the phonetic component "巨" (jù) on the right, which also indicates its pronunciation as "jù" in Mandarin. This character is infrequently used in modern standard Chinese, appearing more commonly in historical texts, poems, or formal writing to convey a tone of disbelief or contradiction, and it has notable occurrences in classical works like those of Zhuangzi.