Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/假-jià-vacation,-leave-jiă-false;-if

假 jià vacation, leave jiă false; if - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

Radical is 人 rén “person”, which is written 亻 when occurring at the left side of a character. The colloquial name for this radical is 人字旁 rénzìpáng “side made up of the character 人.” Phonetic is 叚 jià.

Examples

• 假 jià vacation, leave [N]
• 假日 jiàrì holiday, day off [N]
• 放假 fàngjià take a vacation [VO]
• 请假 (請假) qĭngjià request leave [VO]
• 假如 jiărú if [MA]
• 假如…的话 jiărú...-de huà if... [PT] (假如…的話)

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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