叚

jiǎ
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to borrow; false; not real (classical)

Examples

HSK 4
Tā qǐng le liǎng tiān jià.
He took two days of leave.

Tips

history
叚 ('to borrow / false') is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in 假 (false / holiday), 暇 (leisure), 瑕 (flaw in jade), 遐 (distant), and 虾 (shrimp).

Components

ideograph
叚 jiǎ
to borrow; false
Treated as one unit. It historically pictured two hands passing a rocky object - the act of lending - but the modern shape fused so the parts no longer separate cleanly in 叚.

Filed under radical 又 (yòu, #29) by convention. 又 is not a separate component in 叚, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

叚 jiǎ