Character Details
| lend (to) | Ascii: — | w19 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 借 | jiè | gee:eh | 4 | 亻 (person) + 昔 (former) → borrow | 借 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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In past times I let Mr. T borrow my salad bowl, but he won't give it back. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Can I borrow your phone? | - My pencil is blunt, could you lend me a knife to sharpen it? | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 人 | rén | person | person | person shape | 人 从 们 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 亻 (person) + 昔 (former) → borrow | 亻 (person) | 昔 (phonetic) | phonetic from 昔 | ||||||||