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指责

zhǐ zé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 指責

指责 (zhǐ zé) means "to criticize". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 指责 means

1. to criticize
2. to find fault with
3. to denounce

The characters in 指责

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 责zéduty; responsibility; to reproach

Example sentences

• 她指责我说谎。
  She accused me of telling a lie.
• 她严厉地指责我。
  Tā yánlì de zhǐzé wǒ.
  She sternly accuses me.
• 她被指责说了谎。
  She was accused of telling a lie.
• 她指责我犯了错。
  She accused me of making a mistake.
• 他为这个意外指责我。
  Tā wèi zhège yìwài zhǐzé wǒ.
  He blamed me for the accident.
• 你为什幺指责我儿子？
  Why do you accuse my son?

Words containing 指责

• 横加指责héng jiā zhǐ zéto blame unscrupulously

Where 指责 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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