(zé) - duty, responsibility, blame in Mandarin
zéTraditional: 责
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Translation
duty, responsibility, blame
Word origin
A phono-semantic character built over 贝 (bèi, cowrie shell, standing for money or debt), with a phonetic element above. Demanding payment of a debt gave the sense of duty, responsibility and blame.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 朿 (cì, phonetic) + 贝 (bèi, cowrie, money)
Stroke order
责
Examples
。
This is my responsibility.
。
He is in charge of arranging the meeting.
。
Do not blame her.
。
He fulfilled his duty as a father.
责 (zé) means duty or to blame, pairing with 负 to form 负责 (fùzé, be responsible for).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 责.
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