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借出 (jiè chū) — to lend, to loan (from the lender's perspective)

Definition

借出 means 'to lend out' — seen from the lender's side. Contrast with 借入 (jiè rù, 'to borrow'), which is the same act from the borrower's side.

verb
to lendto loan (from the lender's perspective)

Examples

  • 借出。
    Tā jiè chū le yì běn xiǎo shuō gěi wǒ.
    He lent me a novel.
  • 借出。
    Tú shū guǎn měi tiān jiè chū hěn duō shū.
    The library lends out a lot of books every day.
  • 借出。
    Yín háng jiè chū de dài kuǎn xū yào àn shí hái.
    The loan that the bank lent needs to be repaid on time.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
补充bǔchōngVerb + complement

An action followed by its result or direction.

借jièlend
出chūout

借 means 'lend' or 'borrow', and 出 means 'out'; together they indicate lending something out.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
人人rénperson
Sound part声符shēngfú
昔
昔xī借jiè
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

借 combines 人, a person, with 昔, which shows the sound.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

出 combines 止 (foot) and 凵 (cave) to show a foot stepping out of a cave.

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Appears in
Finance & Banking

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