借
jiè HSK2

borrow

借 jiè frequency
variant 藉
to borrow verb
to borrow something for a period of time; to take a loan

借来的东西都是要还的。

jiè lái de dōng​xi dōu shì yào huán de.

Whatever is borrowed must be returned.

to use as a pretext nounverb
to use something as an excuse or a cover for another action; to pretend
to lend verb
to lend something to someone; often used in combination with 给 gěi or 出 chū

我可以把钱借给你。

wǒ kě​yǐ bǎ qián jiè gěi nǐ.

I can loan you the money.

to make use of noun
to take advantage of an opportunity or situation; to avail oneself of; to rely on
借 jiè
if
(literary) used to introduce a hypothetical situation, meaning "if" or "supposing"
to praise
(literary) to commend or speak highly of; to admire
to help
(archaic) to assist or provide help to others

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Frequency
Character
Written text
984th most common 165.5 per million
Movie subtitles
977th most common 109.2 per million appears in 44% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
94.9 per million appears in 29% of films
Written text
64.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
藉
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+501F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)