借 — Edit Snapshot — Chinese Character Wiki

jiè HSK2

borrow

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

Components

亻 Meaning component

亻 is a component form of 人.

昔 Sound component

Change in sound

借 and 昔 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Regular Modern

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

《說文》：“借，假也。从人，昔聲。”