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Mythic Mandarin

责 (zé): meaning and stroke order

责 (zé) means duty, responsibility, to reproach, to blame.

责

Simplified
责
Traditional
責
Pinyin
zé

Stroke order of 责

责

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 责

  1. zé Traditional 責
    • duty
    • responsibility
    • to reproach
    • to blame

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 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).