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诿 (traditional 諉) is a phono-semantic compound that conveys shirking responsibility or shifting blame. The left side is the speech radical, 讠 in simplified form, 言 in traditional, indicating that such evasion typically relies on spoken excuses or verbal justifications. On the right, the component 委 serves primarily as a phonetic indicator while also contributing the semantic sense of delegating, abandoning, or casting something aside. Together, speech and casting away aptly depict the verbal act of deflecting blame, a usage found in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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