借故 jiègù to find an excuse Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 借故 jiè//gù variant 藉故 to find an excuse To find a reason or pretext to do something; also used to describe doing something under a false reason. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.906 per million Cross-References Synonym 托故 tuōgù借口 jièkǒu借端 jièduān托辞 tuōcí推故 tuīgù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
借故 jiè//gù variant 藉故 to find an excuse To find a reason or pretext to do something; also used to describe doing something under a false reason. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.906 per million Cross-References Synonym 托故 tuōgù借口 jièkǒu借端 jièduān托辞 tuōcí推故 tuīgù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
