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假借

jia3 jie4

• to make use of
• to use sth as pretext
• under false pretenses

假借字

jia3 jie4 zi4

• loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
• character acquiring meanings by phonetic association
• also called phonetic loan

假借义

繁体：假借義

jia3 jie4 yi4

• the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字[jia3 jie4 zi4] acquired from a similar-sounding word (e.g. 而[er2] originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and")