假借义 in English jia3 jie4 yi4 Meaning

Meanings

  • the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字[jia3 jie4 zi4] acquired from a similar-sounding word (for example: 而[er2] originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and")

Simplified Characters

假 借 义

Traditional Characters

假 借 義

Pinyin

jia3 jie4 yi4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

假jia3see 假掰[gei1 bai1] 借jie4to lend 义yi4surname Yi