假 (jiǎ)
fake/false/artificial
How 假 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 假
- Simplified
- 假 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 尸 corpse
- 二 two
- 又 right hand
假 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiǎ
- fake; false; artificial; to borrow
- jià
- vacation
Common words using 假
- 假期 jiàqī
- vacation
- 寒假 hánjià
- winter vacation
- 放假 fàngjià
- to have a holiday or vacation
- 休假 xiūjià
- to take a vacation; to go on holiday
- 假唱 jiǎchàng
- to mime; to fake singing; lip sync
- 假如 jiǎrú
- if
- 假意 jiǎyì
- hypocrisy; insincerity
- 假日 jiàrì
- holiday; non-working day
- 假裝 jiǎzhuāng
- to feign; to pretend
- 假設 jiǎshè
- suppose that...; hypothesis; conjecture
- 假話 jiǎhuà
- a lie; untrue statement; misstatement
- 假象 jiǎxiàng
- false appearance; facade
假 in a sentence
那個名牌包是假的。
Nàge míngpái bāo shì jiǎde.
“That designer bag is fake.”
How common is 假?
假 is the 635th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.8% of all running text.
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