借字

Chinese

		to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
simp. and trad. (借字)		借	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jièzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄗˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jièzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jièzìh
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: jyè-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiehtzyh
    • Palladius: цзецзы (czeczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sz̩⁵¹/

Noun

借字

1. (linguistics) phonetic loan character; word that takes another's meaning

Synonyms

• 通假字 (tōngjiǎzì)

Verb

借字

1. to use one character interchangeably for phonetically related characters