jiǎ
verb

Meanings

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

Examples

两天
Tā qǐng le liǎng tiān jià.
He took two days of leave.

Tips

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

Components

ideograph
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 .

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

Stroke Order

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