拼音
- jiè (fourth tone, falling)
to borrow; to lend; to make use of, to take (an opportunity)
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰亻昔The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 亻meaning partno entry yetThe person radical: borrowing happens between people.
- 昔sound partno entry yet昔 xī for the sound; on its own it means "former times, the past".
Mnemonic
A person 亻 with 昔 for the sound. The character covers both ends of the transaction — Chinese does not have separate words for borrowing and lending — and the direction is shown by the rest of the sentence: 我借他一本书 depends on context, while 我向他借书 is unambiguously borrowing and 我借给他一本书 is unambiguously lending. Give it back with 还.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
部首 人 — other characters
- 人rén (second tone, rising)person, human being; people
- 他tā (first tone, high and level)he, him; his; (in the plural 他们) they, including groups of mixed or unstated gender
- 们們men (neutral tone)the plural suffix for pronouns and for nouns denoting people: 我们, 你们, 他们, 朋友们
- 你nǐ (third tone, dipping)you (one person)
- 会會huì (fourth tone, falling) kuài (fourth tone, falling)to know how to, to be able to (through learning); to be likely to, will; a meeting, a gathering, an association; (kuài) only in 会计, accounting
- 住zhù (fourth tone, falling)to live, to dwell, to stay; to stop, to halt; (as a verb complement) firmly, fast