昔借假叚

昔 借 假 叚

These are all the same whether in simplified or traditional Chinese.

昔借假叚

昔借假叚

These are all the same whether in simplified or traditional Chinese.

昔Xī it’s literally a picture of meat drying in the sun as the idea of ANCIENT (probably also preserve) and also as dried meat.

惜Xī add a heart on the left it becomes CHERISH

借jiè add a person on the left and now it means LEND and BORROW that which is lent and borrowed is cherished by at least one party. It means both “borrow” AND “lend”.

叚jiǎ it’s thought to be a picture of a hand with a tool stripping meat from flesh. hand and tool on the right stripped flesh on the lower left remainder of the hide on the left and top. Presented as the image of a hand, reaching into a pocket for an item in late modernity. The idea is FAKE but also BORROW. This character is rarely used it is now seen as a variant character of

假jiǎ FAKE, BORROW, VACATION (vacations are “borrowed time”