The Chinese Radical: 责


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Meaning
responsibility    责

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
merit, accomplishment

Left: thread 纟/糸, right: responsibility 责 (... for growing plants and money 贝/貝)
Threads have the responsibility (i.e. in woven form) to provide a merit.  
HSK 4
responsibility, duty, to reproach, to blame

Top: growing plant /丰, below: shell/money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money)
Growing plants and money mean responsibility.  
HSK 6
debt, liability, obligation
zhài
Left: person 亻, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean responsibilities.)
A person bears the responsibility for his: debt.  
no HSK
to click one's tongue (in wonder or astonish)

Left: mouth 口, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean a responsibility.)
The mouth with phonetic pronunciation 'zé' as used at: 'responsibility' stands for tongue-snapping.  
no HSK
to soak, penetrate, to be stained, floodwater

Left: water 氵, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean responsibility)
Water has the responsibility (= property) that it can soak.  

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