假
jiǎjiàgēi HSK1

falsehood

假 jiǎ frequency
fake adjective
not real; artificial; false

这是一朵假花。

zhè shì yī duǒ jiǎ huā.

This is a fake flower.

borrow noun
to borrow; to make use of

他不想亲自处理此事，便假手于人来代办。

tā bù xiǎng qīn​zì chǔ​lǐ cǐ shì, biàn jiǎ shǒu yú rén lái dài​bàn.

He didn't want to handle the matter himself, so he had someone else do it for him.

suppose conjunction
if; in the event that; supposing

假使明天不下雨，我们就去郊外写生吧。

jiǎ shǐ míng​tiān bù xià​yǔ, wǒ​men jiù qù jiāo​wài xiě​shēng ba.

If it doesn't rain tomorrow, let's go to the countryside to sketch.

假 jià
vacation noun

暑假就要开始了。

shǔ jià jiù yào kāi​shǐ le.

Summer vacation is about to begin.

假 (叚) jiǎ
borrow adjective
to borrow

成语久假不归形容借了别人的东西长期不还。

chéng​yǔ jiǔ jiǎ bù guī xíng​róng jiè le bié​ren de dōng​xi cháng​qī bù huán.

The idiom 'jiu jia bu gui' describes borrowing something from someone and not returning it for a long time.

假 gēi
affected adjective
used in 假掰 gēi​bāi (pretentious)

他那副假掰的样子真让人感到不舒服。

tā nà fù gēi​bāi de yàng​zi zhēn ràng rén gǎn​dào bù shū​fu.

His pretentious manner really makes people feel uncomfortable.

Frequency
Character
Written text
636th most common 324.0 per million
Movie subtitles
525th most common 273.4 per million appears in 71% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
98.7 per million appears in 32% of films
Written text
111.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5047

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