假ㄐㄧㄚˇjiǎ借ㄐㄧㄝˋjiè義ㄧˋyì

  1. 凡字義基於讀音同或音近之關係，以一字表另一語義而產生與本義無關者，稱為「假借義」。如《孟子·離婁下》「蚤起，施從良人之所之」的「蚤」字，本義為跳蚤，後因與「早」同音而被借作早起之早。

英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")​