責

See also: 责

Translingual

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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Chinese

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trad.		責
simp.		责

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zé, zhài (ze², zhai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˊ, ㄓㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak³
• Min Nan (POJ): chek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zé
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tsê²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzer
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhài
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jay
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaak³
    • Yale: jaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕɪk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (責, reconstructed)
Character (責), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 莊 (18) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 側革切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃɣɛk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂæk̚/	/t͡ʃɛk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂɯæk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂəɨjk̚/	/t͡ʃæk̚/	/t͡ʃɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (責, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
責					1761					朿					錫					0					責					/*ʔsreːɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

責

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

責 (trách)

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