Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

598 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: blame, condemn, censure

Kunyomi: せ.める

Onyomi: セキ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: かい

Meaning: shell

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

務(せきむ)   duty, obligation

任(せきにん)   duty, responsibility

任感(せきにんかん)   sense of responsibility

(じゅうせき)   heavy responsibility

(じせき)   self reproach

する(めんせきする)   exempt from responsibility

する(しっせきする)   reprimand rebuke

める(せめる)   condemn, blame, criticize

Onyomi Examples

セキ responsibility, duty, obligation

セキニン duty, responsibility (incl. supervision of staff), liability, onus

モンセキ blame, censure, reproof, reprimand, rebuke

インセキ taking responsibility

Kunyomi Examples

める せめる to condemn, to blame, to criticize, to criticise, to reproach, to accuse, to urge, to press, to pester, to torture, to torment, to persecute, to break in (a horse)