Hanja Analyzer
僥

僥 — yo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
요행 요
Romanization
yo
English
be lucky; by chance, by luck
Mandarin
jiǎo
Japanese on'yomi
ギョウ, キョウ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
14
Radical
人 (9, 12 residual)
Phonetic component
堯
Unicode
U+50E5

Parts that make up 僥

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 堯 요임금 요sound 흙을 높이 쌓은 모양높다. ‘요’ 계열의 소리로 쓴다

How 僥 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 僥 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 堯.

Korean example words with 僥

  • 요행스럽다僥倖 Korean gloss: 뜻밖에 잘되어 다행한 느낌이 있다
  • 요행수僥倖數 Korean gloss: 뜻밖에 얻는 좋은 운수
  • 요행스레僥倖스레 Korean gloss: 뜻밖에 잘되어 다행한 느낌이 있게

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 僥

  • 僥倖ぎょうこう (stroke of) luck; (unexpected) good fortune; godsend

Characters sharing the phonetic 堯

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “요”

Other hanja with radical 人

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