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借口

jiè kǒu

HSK 5 2-character word

What 借口 means

1. to use as an excuse
2. excuse; pretext

The characters in 借口

• 借jièto borrow; (used in combination with 给; to make use of; to avail oneself of
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 我没有借口。
  I have no excuse.
• 借口是没用的。
  There is no use in making excuses.
• 为晚归找个借口。
  To make an excuse for having stayed out late.
• 我没有任何借口。
  I don't have an excuse.
• 他编造了一个借口。
  Tā biānzào le yī gè jièkǒu.
  He thought up an excuse.
• 这只不过是个借口。
  That's just an excuse.

Words containing 借口

• 找借口zhǎo jiè kǒuto look for a pretext

Sounds the same

Read jiè kǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 藉口to use as an excuse; on the pretext; excuse