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Did you mean: guige gui guisi guisu goose guike guize kuise ?

假借 jiǎ jiè to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan
借尸还魂 jiè shī huán hún lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise


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