借 · jiè
borrow; lend; make pretext of
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
borrow; lend; make pretext of
- Mandarin
- jiè
- Cantonese
- ze3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 借 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 차
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+501F
- Radical
- 人 · 9
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 借
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 1 matches
我没有任何借口。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #395290 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #395289 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsjaeH · 子夜 反切 · #2874
- Middle Chinese
- tsjek · 資昔 反切 · #3648
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 15466 · tsjaeH = 假開三去麻精 · tsjek = 梗開三入清精
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- jiè
- kCantonese
- ze3
- kDefinition
- borrow; lend; make pretext of
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 9.8
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+501F U+85C9
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+501F
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:1955
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jiè 10171.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jiè 0584.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jiè 175.030,175.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- jiè(204)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jiè粵ze3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 子夜 資昔
- Kangxi positions
- 0108.100
- Guangyun positions
- 423.13 516.31
- GSR references
- 0798u
- Cangjie
- OTA
- Four-corner
- 2426.1