Chinese Character Wiki
假

jiǎ, gēi, jià

falsehood

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

叚 sound component

叚  Sound component

jiǎ

  

false

叚 also serves as a meaning component.

Evolution

假 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
假 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
假 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

假  

jiǎ

falsehood, deception; vacation; fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose

假  

gēi

see 假掰[gēi​bāi]

假 (叚) 

jiǎ

variant of 假[jiǎ]

Most common words with 假
Freq.
Word
Meaning

假

fake

假装

to feign

假如

if

假设

to suppose

假期

vacation

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.kˤraʔ

kaeX

jiǎ

borrow; false

*kˤraʔ

kaeX

jiǎ

great


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 70.7032% of movies

525th most common character in movies

636th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5047

Shuowen

“假，非真也。从人，叚聲。一曰至也。《虞書》曰：‘假于上下。’”


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