假借

See also: 仮借

Chinese

		vacation; fake; false vacation; fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose	to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of
simp. and trad. (假借)		假	借

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiǎjiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa² ze³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiǎjiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎjiè
    • Wade–Giles: chia³-chieh⁴
    • Yale: jyǎ-jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeajieh
    • Palladius: цзяцзе (czjacze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa² ze³
    • Yale: gá je
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa² dze³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga² zé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː³⁵ t͡sɛː³³/

Verb

假借

1. to make use of; to be under the guise of
2. (archaic) to countenance; to tolerate; to allow; to indulge

   • 北蕃蠻夷之鄙人，未嘗見天子，故振慴。願大王少假借之，使得畢使於前。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     北蕃蛮夷之鄙人，未尝见天子，故振慑。愿大王少假借之，使得毕使于前。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Běifán mányí zhī bǐ rén, wèicháng jiàn tiānzǐ, gù zhènzhé. Yuàn dàiwáng shāo jiǎjiè zhī, shǐdé bì shǐ yú qián. [Pinyin]

     This poor barbarian from the far north had never appeared before a true Heavenly Son before, and he became awe-shocked and terrified. May I humbly request that Your Majesty graciously indulge him, so that we may accomplish the mission before you.

Synonyms

• 借用 (jièyòng)

Noun

假借

1. (in Chinese character classification) Chinese characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme which has no semantic connection with the borrowed character

See also

• 六書／六书 (liùshū, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • 指事 (zhǐshì): ideogram
  • 象形 (xiàngxíng): pictogram
  • 形聲／形声 (xíngshēng): phono-semantic compound
  • 會意／会意 (huìyì): compound ideograph
  • 轉注 (zhuǎnzhù): derivative cognate
  • 假借 (jiǎjiè): phonetic loan

Japanese

Kanji in this term
假	借
か Hyōgai	しゃ Grade: 4
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 假借 – see the following entry.

【仮借かしゃ】 [noun] (Chinese character classification) phonetic loan (one of the six types, 六書, of Chinese characters or kanji) 【仮借かしゃく】 [noun] excuse, pardon [verb] to excuse, pardon

(This term, 假借, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
假	借

Noun

假借 • (gacha) (hangeul 가차)

1. hanja form^? of 가차 (“(Chinese character classification) Chinese characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme.”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
假	借

Noun

假借

1. chữ Hán form of giả tá (“(Chinese character classification) Chinese characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme.”).