假

gēi

3 readings · tap one to hear it

fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose

Sound it out + + = · + + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A false 叚 person 亻; 叚 also provides the pronunciation

Components 亻叚

vacation · Heisig RSH #1402

人 person + braces

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
放假	fàng jià	to have a holiday or vacation
请假	qǐng jià	to request leave of absence
假小子	jiǎ xiǎo zi	tomboy
国定假日	guó dìng jià rì	national holiday
生理假	shēng lǐ jià	menstrual leave (Tw)
假大空	jiǎ dà kōng	empty words; bogus speech
假分数	jiǎ fēn shù	improper fraction (with numerator ≥ denominator, e.g. seven fifths); see also: proper frac…
假阳性	jiǎ yáng xìng	false positive
假动作	jiǎ dòng zuò	fake move or pass (sports); feint
假高音	jiǎ gāo yīn	falsetto, same as 假聲\|假声
平假名	píng jiǎ míng	hiragana (Japanese script)
度假区	dù jià qū	resort area; tourist zone (in China, typically state-designated for integrated tourism dev…
假手于人	jiǎ shǒu yú rén	(idiom) to get one's own task done by sb else
假子	jiǎ zǐ	adopted son; stepson
假人	jiǎ rén	dummy (for crash testing, displaying clothes etc)
假山	jiǎ shān	rock garden; rockery
假水	jiǎ shuǐ	slime (toy)
通假字	tōng jiǎ zì	phonetic loan character; using one character interchangeably for phonetically related char…
打假球	dǎ jiǎ qiú	game-fixing; to fix games
假性	jiǎ xìng	pseudo-