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假借
Mandarin · pinyin jiǎ jiè
Meanings
- to make use of
- to use sth as pretext
- under false pretenses
- under the guise of
- masquerading as
- lenient
- tolerant
- loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書 of forming Chinese characters)
- character acquiring meanings by phonetic association
- also called phonetic loan
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3–4 · jia3 jie4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gaa2 ze3
Cantonese word readings for 假借. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
verb
- to make use of; to be under the guise of
- (archaic) to countenance; to tolerate; to allow; to indulge
noun
- (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
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