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The character 诿 (traditional: 諉) is a phono-semantic compound meaning to shirking responsibility or shift blame. Its left component, the speech radical 讠/言, signifies that this evasion is typically accomplished through spoken excuses or arguments. The right component, 委, serves as the phonetic element while also contributing the semantic notion of delegating or casting aside. Together, the structure conveys the act of verbally casting blame onto another.
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