Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

借: borrow, rent

JLPT N410 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 昔 gives the sound

10 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

シャクshaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 拝借するはいしゃくするborrow [hum.]
  • 借金しゃっきんdebt
  • 借家しゃくやrented house
  • 借款しゃっかんloan (esp. between governments)
  • 借地しゃくちleased land
  • 貸借たいしゃくloan; debit and credit

かりるkariru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 借りるかりるborrow
  • 借りかりborrowing; debt; loan

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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昔

Also built on once upon a time (昔)

借 takes the 昔 family's reading, シャク (shaku).

Also read シャク

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
借 borrow · 亻
vs惜 pity · 忄
借 has 亻 where 惜 has 忄.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiè

Same form: 借 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
借 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
借 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jiè most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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