假如

Chinese

		vacation; fake; false vacation; fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose	as (if); such as
trad. (假如)		假	如
simp. #(假如)		假	如

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiǎrú

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄖㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa² jyu⁴

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ga³ yi²
• Eastern Min (BUC): gā-ṳ̀
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ká-lû / ka-lîr / kée-jî / ká-jû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiǎrú
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄖㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎrú
    • Wade–Giles: chia³-ju²
    • Yale: jyǎ-rú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jearu
    • Palladius: цзяжу (czjažu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa² jyu⁴
    • Yale: gá yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa² jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga² yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː³⁵ jyː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ga³ yi²
    • Sinological IPA: /ka³¹ i¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gā-ṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka³³⁻²¹ y⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ká-lû
    • Tâi-lô: ká-lû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kafluu
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ka⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-lîr
    • Tâi-lô: ka-lîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³ lɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kée-jî
    • Tâi-lô: kée-jî
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɛ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zi¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ká-jû
    • Tâi-lô: ká-jû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kafjuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zu²³/

Conjunction

假如

1. if; in case; supposing

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 如果 (“if”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		若, 假, 如, 使, 令, 苟, 向, 向使, 向令, 假令, 假使, 誠, 誠使, 倘, 儻, 當使
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		若, 如, 如果, 若果, 果若, 假如, 假若, 假使, 假設, 倘若, 倘或, 倘然, 倘使, 若是, 若然, 設若, 設使, 設令, 設或, 設
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	要是, 要
	Taiwan	要是, 要, 如果
	Malaysia	如果
	Singapore	如果
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	要是
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	要是
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	要是, 假比
	Wuhan	要是
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	要是, 要, 假使
	Hefei	要是, 倘此, 倘倘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	如果, 若果, 若然, 假使間
	Hong Kong	如果, 若果, 若然, 若然之, 假使, 假使間, 假如
	Macau	假如
	Taishan	如果, 若果, 假使
	Kaiping (Chikan)	若果
	Yangjiang	設若
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	如果
	Singapore (Guangfu)	如果
Gan	Nanchang	要是, 若是
	Lichuan	假使
Hakka	Meixian	係話, 若係, 如果
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	若果, 係講, 係話
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	係講, 係準, 係準講, 準講, 準假, 係若, 若係, 假使, 假詐
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	準講, 可比, 假使, 係講, 若係, 若係講, 準若講
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	若係講, 假使, 若講, 係講, 若係
	Kuching (Hepo)	假使
Jin	Taiyuan	要是
Northern Min	Jian'ou	來是, 如果
	Pucheng (Shibei)	來是, 如果
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	儷是, 若還
Southern Min	Xiamen	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是, 甲若, 甲若是
	Quanzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是
	Zhangzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是, 甲若, 甲若是
	Tainan	若是, 若準, 若, 假使, 設使
	Penang (Hokkien)	若是, 若準
	Singapore (Hokkien)	若是
	Manila (Hokkien)	若是, 若, 假使
	Chaozhou	若是
	Shantou	如果
	Jieyang	若, 若是
	Singapore (Teochew)	若是
	Wenchang	但見, 欲
	Haikou	麼是, 設如, 設使
Wu	Shanghai	要是, 如果, 假使, 倘然, 倘使, 是得
	Suzhou	要, 如果
	Wenzhou	若是, 若
Xiang	Changsha	要是
	Shuangfeng	要是, 要此

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
假	如

Conjunction

假如

1. chữ Hán form of giả như (“if; in case; supposing; if only”).