假借

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

used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]

fake / false / artificial / to borrow / if / suppose

vacation

variant of 假[jia3] / to borrow

to lend / to borrow / by means of / to take (an opportunity)

variant of 借[jie4]

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

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")