漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
責: blame, condemn
Also: censure
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 龶(sound)
- 貝shell(meaning)
貝 carries the meaning · 龶 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 責務せきむduty, obligation
- 責任せきにんduty, responsibility
- 責任感せきにんかんsense of responsibility
- 重責じゅうせきheavy responsibility
- 自責じせきself reproach
- 免責するめんせきするexempt from responsibility
- 叱責するしっせきするreprimand rebuke
せめるsemeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 責めるせめるcondemn, blame, criticize
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)朿 (sound) + 貝 cowry; money (meaning)
Tax; debt.
Source: Wiktionary, 責 (rev. 93391345), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
責 gives its sound to
The family reading is セキ (seki). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side責 blame · 龶
vs貢 tribute · 工In ChineseSimplified 责 · traditional, as in Japanese · zé
Japan keeps the traditional form 責; mainland China simplifies it to 责.
- Simplified
- 责 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 責 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zé most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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