Search CC-CEDICT Help

4 entries found matching your query.

(in native CC-CEDICT format)

		Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
		假借	假借	[jia3 jie4]	/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\|六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character acquiring meanings by phonetic association/also called phonetic loan/	4410	1
		假借義	假借义	[jia3 jie4 yi4]	/the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字[jia3 jie4 zi4] acquired from a similar-sounding word (e.g. 而[er2] originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and")/	2839	1
		假借字	假借字	[jia3 jie4 zi4]	/loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書\|六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character acquiring meanings by phonetic association/also called phonetic loan/	6956	1
		六書	六书	[liu4 shu1]	/Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文\|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意\|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲\|形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注\|转注 (transfer)/	5808	1

/

(in native CC-CEDICT format)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

By MDBG 2026
Privacy and cookies

Help wanted: the CC-CEDICT project is looking for new volunteer editors!