假若

假若

Chinese

		vacation; fake; false vacation; fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose	to seem; like; as to seem; like; as; if
simp. and trad. (假若)		假	若

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiǎruò

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄖㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa² joek⁶
• Min Dong (BUC): gā-iŏk
• Min Nan (POJ): ká-nā / ká-nǎ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiǎruò
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄖㄨㄛˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jearuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa² joek⁶
    • Yale: gá yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa² joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga² yêg⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /käː³⁵ jœ̽ːk̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gā-iŏk
    • IPA ^(key): /ka³³⁻²¹ yoʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ká-nā
    • Tâi-lô: ká-nā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kafna
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ nã³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ka⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nã²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ká-nǎ
    • Tâi-lô: ká-nǎ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ nã²²/

Conjunction

假若

1. if; supposing

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 如果 (“if”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		若, 如, 使, 假, 令, 苟, 向, 向使, 向令, 假令, 假使, 誠, 誠使, 倘, 儻
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如果, 若果, 假如, 假若, 假使, 假設, 倘若, 倘或, 倘然, 倘使, 若是, 若然, 設若, 設使, 設令, 如
Mandarin	Beijing	要是, 要
	Taiwan	要是, 要, 如果
	Jinan	要是
	Xi'an	要是
	Wuhan	要是
	Chengdu	要是
	Yangzhou	要是, 要, 假使
	Hefei	要是, 倘此, 倘倘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	如果, 若果, 若然, 假使間
	Hong Kong	如果, 若果, 若然, 若然之, 假使, 假使間
	Taishan	如果
	Yangjiang	設若
Gan	Nanchang	要是, 若是
Hakka	Meixian	係話, 若係, 如果
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	係講, 係準, 係準講, 準講, 準假, 係若, 若係, 假使, 假詐
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Dongshi (Dabu)	準講, 可比, 假使, 係講, 若係, 若係講, 準若講
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	若係講, 假使, 若講, 係講, 若係
Jin	Taiyuan	要是
Min Bei	Jian'ou	來是, 如果
Min Dong	Fuzhou	儷是, 若還
Min Nan	Xiamen	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是
	Quanzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是
	Zhangzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是
	Taipei	若是, 若準, 若, 假使, 設使, 欲
	Penang	若是, 若準
	Philippines (Manila)	若是, 若
	Chaozhou	若是
	Shantou	如果
Wu	Shanghai	要是, 如果, 假使, 倘然, 倘使, 是得
	Suzhou	要, 如果
	Wenzhou	若是, 若
Xiang	Changsha	要是
	Shuangfeng	要是, 要此

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 假若 – see 敢若 (“to seem; to be like; as if; etc.”). (This term, 假若, is a variant form of 敢若.)