Chinese Character Wiki

諉

wěi

pass buck

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

委 sound component

委  Sound component

wěi, wēi

  

bent, winding

Evolution

諉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诿 (諉) 

wěi

pass buck, lay blame on others; to shirk; to give excuses

Most common words with 諉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

推诿

to decline

诿

to shirk

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nroj-s

nrjweH

wěi

implicate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4296th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

诿

Unicode

U+8AC9

Shuowen

“諉，纍也。从言，委聲。”


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