{"path":"/entry/4064","title":"久假不归 / 久假不歸 (jiǔ jiǎ bù guī) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"久假不归 / 久假不歸 (jiǔ jiǎ bù guī): to fail to return a borrowed item. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":4064,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["久假不归"],"TRADITIONAL":["久假不歸"]}},"phonetic":"jiǔ jiǎ bù guī","phoneticKey":"jiu3 jia3 bu4 gui1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to fail to return a borrowed item","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"jiú jiǎ bù guī"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Originally, “to borrow the name of renyi (benevolence and righteousness) without actually practicing them”. From Jin Xin I of Mencius","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"孟子曰：「尧舜，性之也；汤武，身之也；五霸，假之也。久假而不归，恶知其非有也。」","traditional":"孟子曰：「堯舜，性之也；湯武，身之也；五霸，假之也。久假而不歸，惡知其非有也。」"},"phonetic":"Mèngzǐ yuē: “Yáo Shùn, xìng zhī yě; Tāng Wǔ, shēn zhī yě; wǔ bà, jiǎ zhī yě. Jiǔ jiǎ ér bù guī, wū zhī qí fēi yǒu yě.”","english":"Mencius said, 'Benevolence and righteousness were natural to Yao and Shun. Tang and Wu made them their own. The five chiefs of the princes feigned them. Having borrowed them long and not returned them, how could it be known they did not own them?'","ref":"Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}