假
jiǎTraditional: 假
#1226 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
fake, false, artificial
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the person radical 亻on the left and the phonetic element 叚 (jiǎ) on the right. In the third tone it means false or borrowed, as opposed to genuine.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(person) + 叚 (jiǎ, phonetic)
Stroke order
假
Examples
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This is counterfeit money.
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His smile is very false.
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Do not believe fake news.
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These flowers are artificial.
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He used a false name.
假 (jiǎ) means fake, false or artificial. In a different tone the same character means holiday, but here it contrasts with 真, genuine.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 假.
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