借 jiè▶ mượn

Stroke order

借 is written in 10 strokes.

• 借

Senses

1. to borrow
2. to make use of; to avail oneself of

Example sentences

• 我想借你的书看看。Wǒ xiǎng jiè nǐ de shū kànkan.I would like to borrow your book for a look.
• 他从图书馆借了三本书。Tā cóng túshūguǎn jièle sān běn shū.He borrowed three books from the library.

Related words

• 借口Lời xin lỗi; viện cớ
• 借助với sự giúp đỡ của
• 借鉴noi gương

借 is pronounced jiè and means “mượn”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 借 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.