zhài

debt

A person's  duty  also provides the pronunciation

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

责 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

responsibility

Evolution

债 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
债 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
债 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhài

debt, loan, liabilities; debt; CL:|[bǐ]

Most common words with 债
Freq.
Word
Meaning

debt

债务

debt

债券

bond

国债

national debt

负债

to be in debt

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 10.6359% of movies

1853rd most common character in movies

1223rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+503A


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