侥
僥jiǎo
#3,353 most
frequent character
by mere luck
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
侥 has 亻 person as the meaning part and 尧 as the sound part. It first meant a southern person of short height. Read jiǎo, it also means by mere luck, a sense borrowed for its sound.
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