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Mythic Mandarin

负责 (fù zé): meaning and stroke order

负责 (fù zé) means to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for, conscientious.

负责

Simplified
负责
Traditional
負責
Pinyin
fù zé

Stroke order of 负责

负

  • fù to bear; to carry (on one's back)
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 負

Stroke by stroke

责

  • zé duty; responsibility
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 責

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 负责

  1. fù zé Traditional 負責
    • to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for
    • conscientious

Radicals of the characters

负
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 6 strokes
责
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 龶 on top, 贝 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

负责 in our stories

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  • 唐朝时，长安城外的泾河里住着一位龙王，专门负责这一带的下雨。

    Tángcháo shí Cháng'ān chéng wài de Jīng Hé lǐ zhù zhe yí wèi Lóngwáng zhuānmén fùzé zhè yídài de xiàyǔ

    In the Tang dynasty, in the Jing River outside Chang'an, lived a Dragon King whose sole duty was the rain in that region.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 负责查案的官员仔细检查了伤口：伤口又宽又浅，边缘不整齐，不像刀砍的，倒像是镰刀割的。

    fùzé chá'àn de guānyuán zǐxì jiǎnchá le shāngkǒu shāngkǒu yòu kuān yòu qiǎn biānyuán bù zhěngqí bú xiàng dāo kǎn de dào xiàng shì liándāo gē de

    The official in charge examined the wounds carefully: they were wide and shallow with ragged edges—not like cuts from a knife, but rather like slashes from a sickle.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 负责

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).