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借 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「亻」

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7Elementary year 4 ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「亻」
On
シャクしゃく · shaku
Kun
か(りる)ka(riru)
Meaning
borrow, rent

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

A phono-semantic character with 人 (person) and 昔 as the sound, meaning to borrow something from someone.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onシャクしゃくshaku借用しゃくよう借金しゃっきん貸借たいしゃく
Kunかりるkariru借りるかりる借りかり

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 借金しゃっきん

    debt

  • 借家しゃくや

    rented house

More words with this kanji

  • 借款しゃっかん
  • 租借そしゃく

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

図書(としょ)館(かん)で本(ほん)を借(か)りる。

I borrow books at the library.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

借家借金借家house金gold付to att…例exampl…信trust便conven…候climat…勺ladle尺shaku石stone灼to bur…呎foot
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 亻Map of reading シャクAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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