摘借 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhāijiè

borrow money

zhāi pluck, pick

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 啇 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

啇 Sound component

dì, shì, zhāi stalk, stem, root

Change in sound

摘 and 啇 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
摘 treak
啇 tek̚

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

▼ More ▲ Less

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	treak	tˤrek	pluck (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“摘，拓果樹實也。从手，啻聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

jiè borrow

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 昔 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

昔 Sound component

xī, cuò in the past, ancient times

Change in sound

借 and 昔 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
借 *[ts]Ak
昔 *[s]Ak

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

▼ More ▲ Less

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsjaeH	[ts]Ak-s	loan, borrow
	tsjek	[ts]Ak	loan, borrow

說文解字

《說文》：“借，假也。从人，昔聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

摘 zhāi pluck, pick

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

借 jiè borrow

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

zhāi pluck, pick

jiè borrow