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责怪

zé guài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 責怪

责怪 (zé guài) means "to blame; to rebuke". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 责怪 means

1. to blame
2. to rebuke

The characters in 责怪

• 责zéduty; responsibility; to reproach
• 怪guàiodd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange…

Example sentences

• 为什么要责怪我们？
  Why blame us?
• 他只是责怪别人，从不自责。
  Tā zhǐshì zéguài biéren, cóngbù zìzé.
  He only blames other people, and never himself.
• 她不仅没责怪他，反而陈赞他。
  Tā bù jǐn méi zéguài tā, fǎn'ér chén zàn tā.
  It wasn't just that she didn't blame him - she actually praised the guy.
• 她不仅没责怪他，反而称赞他。
  It wasn't just that she didn't blame him - she actually praised the guy.

Where 责怪 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zé guài correctly.
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