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The incompetent boat pilot blames the river for his shortcomings
bù huì chēng chuán lài hé wān
不會撐船賴河灣 literally translates as: [One who] cannot steer the boat blames the bends in the river.
Figuratively, this means: One who is incompetent always tries to shift the blame elsewhere.
This is similar to the English idiom, “a poor workman/craftsman blames his tools.”
Responsibility
責任 is the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean word for “responsibility.”
責任 can also refer to someone who is willing to take the blame when things go wrong (instead of making excuses or passing the blame to someone else). While this is a noble idea, I think it is getting rare these days in both eastern and western cultures.
Also associated with the idea of "duty."
These search terms might be related to Blame:
Duty / Responsibility / Obligation
Great Responsibility
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
賴 赖 see styles |
lài lai4 lai rai |
More info & calligraphy: LaiTo rely upon, depend on; throw the burden on, repudiate. |
責任 责任 see styles |
zé rèn ze2 ren4 tse jen sekinin せきにん |
More info & calligraphy: Responsibility(1) duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); (2) liability; onus |
呰 see styles |
zǐ zi3 tzu aza あざ |
to slander; to blame; to revile (surname) Aza |
咎 see styles |
jiù jiu4 chiu kyū とが |
fault; to blame; to punish; calamity; misfortune (1) (kana only) error; mistake; fault; (2) (kana only) sin; wrongdoing; offense fault |
咠 see styles |
qì qi4 ch`i chi |
to whisper; to blame, to slander |
委 see styles |
wěi wei3 wei i い |
to entrust; to cast aside; to shift (blame etc); to accumulate; roundabout; winding; dejected; listless; committee member; council; end; actually; certainly (suffix noun) (abbreviation) (See 委員会) committee; commission; board; panel; (female given name) Tomo To throw down, depute; really; crooked; the end. |
嫁 see styles |
jià jia4 chia yome よめ |
(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) (1) wife; bride; (2) (one's) daughter-in-law |
怨 see styles |
yuàn yuan4 yüan on |
to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge Resentment, grievance, hatred. |
怪 see styles |
guài guai4 kuai kai かい |
bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather mystery; wonder strange |
斥 see styles |
chì chi4 ch`ih chih sumihiro すみひろ |
to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh (personal name) Sumihiro reject |
罪 see styles |
zuì zui4 tsui tsumi つみ |
guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin (n,adj-na,adj-no) (1) crime; sin; wrongdoing; indiscretion; (2) penalty; sentence; punishment; (3) fault; responsibility; culpability; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) thoughtlessness; lack of consideration That which is blameworthy and brings about bad karma; entangled in the net of wrong-doing; sin, crime. |
訶 诃 see styles |
hē he1 ho ka |
to scold To blame, reprove, scold; ridicule; translit. ha, ka, kha, ga, and similar sounds. |
誚 诮 see styles |
qiào qiao4 ch`iao chiao |
ridicule; to blame |
謫 谪 see styles |
zhé zhe2 che taku |
to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame to condemn |
譏 讥 see styles |
jī ji1 chi ki |
to ridicule Ridicule, jeer at; inspect. |
譙 谯 see styles |
qiào qiao4 ch`iao chiao |
ridicule; to blame |
責 责 see styles |
zé ze2 tse seki せき |
duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame (See 責任・1) responsibility; duty; obligation; (given name) Seki to upbraid |
難 难 see styles |
nàn nan4 nan nan なん |
disaster; distress; to scold (n,n-suf) (1) difficulty; trouble; hardship; shortage; (2) accident; disaster; danger; (3) fault; defect; flaw; (4) criticism; charge; blame Difficult, hard; distress, adversity; opposite of 易 easy; translit. nan, nam. |
非 see styles |
fēi fei1 fei hi ひ |
to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must (1) fault; error; mistake; (2) going poorly; being disadvantageous; being unfavorable; (prefix) (3) un-; non-; an- Not: un-: without, apart from; wrong. |
不是 see styles |
bù shi bu4 shi5 pu shih fuze |
fault; blame not, is not |
他責 see styles |
taseki たせき |
putting the blame on others; blaming others; (playing the) blame game |
任咎 see styles |
rèn jiù ren4 jiu4 jen chiu |
to take the blame |
休怪 see styles |
xiū guài xiu1 guai4 hsiu kuai |
don't blame (sb) |
冠る see styles |
kamuru かむる kaburu かぶる |
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) to put on (one's head); to wear; to have on; to pull over (one's head); to crown (oneself); (2) (kana only) to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to dash on oneself; to ship water; (3) (kana only) to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to assume (responsibility); to shoulder (burden); (4) to overlap (e.g. sound or color); (5) to be similar; to be redundant; (v5r,vi) (6) to be fogged (due to overexposure, etc.); (7) to close; to come to an end; (8) to get a full house; to sell out; (9) (archaism) to blunder; to bungle; to fail; (10) (archaism) to be deceived |
切責 切责 see styles |
qiè zé qie4 ze2 ch`ieh tse chieh tse |
to blame; to reprimand |
受過 受过 see styles |
shòu guò shou4 guo4 shou kuo |
to take the blame (for sb else) |
呵責 呵责 see styles |
hē zé he1 ze2 ho tse kashaku かしゃく |
to abuse; to berate blame; accusation; torture; maltreatment; pangs (of conscience) criticize |
咎め see styles |
togame とがめ |
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof |
問責 问责 see styles |
wèn zé wen4 ze2 wen tse monseki もんせき |
to hold accountable; to blame; to censure; to apportion blame (noun, transitive verb) blame; censure; reproof; reprimand; rebuke |
嗔怪 see styles |
chēn guài chen1 guai4 ch`en kuai chen kuai |
to blame; to rebuke |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| The incompetent boat pilot blames the river for his shortcomings | 不會撐船賴河灣 不会撑船赖河湾 | bù huì chēng chuán lài hé wān bu4 hui4 cheng1 chuan2 lai4 he2 wan1 bu hui cheng chuan lai he wan buhuichengchuanlaihewan | pu hui ch`eng ch`uan lai ho wan puhuichengchuanlaihowan pu hui cheng chuan lai ho wan |
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| Responsibility | 責任 责任 | sekinin | zé rèn / ze2 ren4 / ze ren / zeren | tse jen / tsejen |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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