責

See also 责

Translingual

simpl.		责
trad.		責

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 朿 (“thorn”) + 貝 (“money”) – the thorny part of money is being responsible for debt.

Top component now resembles 生 (without the diagonal stroke) – compare 青, 素.

Han character

責 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手一月山金 (QMBUC), four-corner 5080₆, composition ⿱龶貝)

1. one's responsibility, duty

Derived characters

• 積 績 嘖

See also

• 青 素

References

• KangXi: page 1205, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36682
• Dae Jaweon: page 1668, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3626, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8CAC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

責 (simplified 责, Yale jaak3)

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Japanese

Kanji

責 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せき (seki), さい (sai)
• Kun: せめる (semeru), せめ (seme)

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Korean

Hanja

責 (hangeul 책, 채, revised chaek, chae, McCune-Reischauer ch'aek, ch'ae, Yale chayk, chay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

責 (simplified 责, pinyin zé (ze2), zhài (zhai4), Wade-Giles tse², chai⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

責 (trách)