Chinese Character Wiki
叚

jiǎ

false

Original meaning: 

whetstone

Depicts a hand (又) sharpening a knife (刀) on a stone (石). Based on the original meaning "whetstone", now written as 碬. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
石 iconic component

石  Iconic component

shí, dàn

  

stone

Depicts a stone.

刀 iconic component

刀  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

Depicts a knife.

又 iconic component

又  Iconic component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Depicts a hand.

Evolution

叚 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
叚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
叚 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
叚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叚  

jiǎ

false

假 (叚) 

jiǎ

variant of 假[jiǎ]; to borrow

Most common words with 叚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

假

fake

假装

to feign

假如

if

假设

to suppose

假期

vacation

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

嘏

Sound component in 12 characters (3 verified)

假 豭 碬 霞 暇 蝦 瑕 遐 葭 瘕 煆 猳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.kˤraʔ

kaeX

jiǎ

borrow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 70.7032% of movies

525th most common character in movies

636th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+53DA

Shuowen

“叚，借也。闕。，古文叚。，譚長說叚如此。”


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