jiè

borrow

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

昔 sound component

  Sound component

  

in the past, ancient times

Evolution

借 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
借 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
借 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiè

borrow; lend; make pretext of; to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity)

() 

jiè

variant of [jiè]

Most common words with 借
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to lend

借口

excuse

凭借

to rely on

借助

to draw support from

借鉴

to draw on (others' experience)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]Ak-s

tsjaeH

jiè

loan, borrow

*[ts]Ak

tsjek

jiè

loan, borrow


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 44.4498% of movies

976th most common character in movies

984th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+501F

Shuowen

“借,假也。从人,昔聲。”


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