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responsibility / blame / duty / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *怪* | 怪* | *怪
bewildering / odd / strange / uncanny / devil / monster / to wonder at / to blame / quite / rather
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *非* | 非* | *非
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *怨* | 怨* | *怨
to blame / (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罪* | 罪* | *罪
guilt / crime / fault / blame / sin
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *赖* | 赖* | *赖
to depend on / to hang on in a place / bad / to renege (on promise) / to disclaim / to rat (on debts) / rascally / to blame / to put the blame on
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
to blame oneself
HSK 7-9
to avoid (esp. responsibility); to shift (the blame); to pass the buck
HSK 7-9
to take the blame (for sb else)
HSK 7-9
to blame / to rebuke
HSK 7-9
to complain / to grumble (about) / to reproach / to blame
HSK 7-9
to blame / to criticize / condemnation / reproach
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *责* | 责* | *责
duty / responsibility / to reproach / to blame
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *委* | 委* | *委
to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story / to make excuses
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斥* | 斥* | *斥
to blame / to reprove / to reprimand / to expel / to oust / to reconnoiter / (of territory) to expand / saline marsh
to shirk responsibility / to blame others / to pass the buck
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谯* | 谯* | *谯
ridicule / to blame
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咎* | 咎* | *咎
fault / to blame / to punish / calamity / misfortune
to blame
to impute / to shift the blame onto someone else
to put the blame on / to accuse
to blame sb wrongly
(idiom) to blame the gods and accuse others
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谪* | 谪* | *谪
to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China) / to banish or exile / (of immortals) to banish from Heaven / to censure / to blame
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
to remarry (of widow) / to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc) / to transfer (blame, guilt) / to pass the buck
(idiom) to have only oneself to blame; to bring trouble through one's own actions
to take the blame for sb else / to compensate for one's crime / to get charges dropped (by paying money etc)
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咠* | 咠* | *咠
to whisper / to blame, to slander
to blame sb
reproof / blame
to blame / to rebuke
cannot blame / no wonder
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *诮* | 诮* | *诮
ridicule / to blame
to be criticized / to suffer blame
to take the blame / to be a scapegoat / to carry the can
to take the blame for sb else / to be made a scapegoat
to pass the misfortune on to sb else (idiom); to blame others / to pass the buck
to take the blame / to accept responsibility (for a mistake)
don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously
to put the blame on sb else
undisclosed account / to settle matters later / to blame sb after the event
to warn / to blame / to rebuke / also written 申斥
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling / to pass the buck
to rebuke / to blame / to denounce
brand name of an antibiotic injection blamed for a number of deaths in 2006
lit. dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom) / fig. concise and powerful style
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *呰* | 呰* | *呰
to slander / to blame / to revile
to hold accountable; to blame; to censure; to apportion blame
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
to blame
(neologism c. 2014) (coll.) to be criticized, blamed or implicated in sth despite having done nothing to deserve it; to be unfairly targeted; to catch a stray (abbr. for 躺著也中槍|躺着也中枪)
(neologism c. 2017) to shift the blame; to pass the buck
don't blame (sb)
(coll.) to blame sb for sth
to take responsibility for the consequences of risky behavior; to have only oneself to blame if things go badly
lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties
fault; blame
to gesticulate / to point out / to point the finger of blame
at fault / blamed for / responsible (for a blunder or crime)
mutually shirking responsibilities (idiom); each blaming the other / passing the buck to and fro / each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other
to blame unscrupulously
to act as a scapegoat; to take the blame for sb else
lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
to take the blame
to blame / to reprimand
lit. to blame the heavens and reproach the earth / fig. to rave and rant
lit. to blame the toilet because one is having difficulty completing a bowel movement (idiom) / fig. to blame others for problems caused by one's own shortcomings
to be criticized / to suffer blame
to blame oneself / self-recrimination
to get blamed


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