責 — Chinese character
責
zé
one's responsibility, duty
- Pinyin
- zé
- Radical
- 154 ⾙ (Shell)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 龶 貝
- Formation
- ideographic — Money 貝 that must be repaid
- Simplified
- 责
- Japanese
- 責 as a kanji
責 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 1 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 9 · Zhuangzi 9
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 79
- Analects 15.14
- Art of War 5.21
- Mencius 2B.5
- Mencius 4A.1
- Mencius 4A.18
- Mencius 4A.22
- Mencius 4B.30
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.