HSK 4 · Verbs

负责 fùzé “to be in charge of” in Chinese

Traditional 負責

What 负责 means

  1. to be in charge of
  2. to take responsibility for
  3. to be responsible for
  4. to bear responsibility for
  5. conscientious

How to say 负责

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale负fù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale责zé2nd tone, rising

负责 in a sentence

  1. 谁负责销售部门？

    Shéi fùzé xiāoshòu bùmén?

    Who’s in charge of the sales department?

    Sentence #811030 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你要对结果负责。

    Nǐ yào duì jiéguǒ fùzé.

    You’re responsible for the outcome.

    Sentence #2004698 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 在主任不在的时候，办公室由谁来负责？

    Zài zhǔrèn bú zài de shíhou, bàngōngshì yóu shéi lái fùzé?

    Who’s in charge of the office while the director is away?

    Sentence #8806666 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 负责 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 负 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
负fùto bear
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
The character 责 (zé) with each of its parts in a different colour
责zéduty
  • 龶part of the character
  • 贝sea shell · bèi

How to write 负责

负 6 strokes · 责 8 strokes

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负责 (fùzé) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 负责 (fùzé). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 负责

Words with 负

胜负shèngfù · victory or defeat辜负gūfù · to let down欺负qīfu · to bully抱负bàofù · aspiration正负zhèngfù · positive and negative负担fùdān · burden

Words with 责

责任zérèn · responsibility责备zébèi · to blame责怪zéguài · to blame指责zhǐzé · to criticise谴责qiǎnzé · to condemn

More words: Common Verbs

翻译fānyì · to translate放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays符合fúhé · in keeping with复印fùyìn · to photocopy改变gǎibiàn · to change赶gǎn · to hurry购物gòuwù · shopping

FAQs

负责 (fùzé) means “to be in charge of” or “to take responsibility for”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fùzé: fù with a 4th tone, then zé with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 负责 is written 負責. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuze with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 负责 from the suggestions. Typing fuze into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
负责 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.