Duty in Chinese
duty · HSK 4
责任
- 责 responsibility
- 任 to appoint
照顾孩子是父母的责任。 Taking care of children is the parents' responsibility.
Other ways to say duty
More words with 责 or 任
How do you say duty in Chinese?
Duty in Chinese is 责任 (zé rèn). You can also say 税 (shuì), 义务 (yì wù), 职责 (zhí zé), 班 (bān).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.