推 tuī
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 隹 short-tailed bird
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
推卸
tuīxiè
to shirk; to evade responsibility
Characters in this word
卸 xiè
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 卩 — seal
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 事故发生后，几家承包商互相推卸责任，延误了赔偿进程。 Shìgù fāshēng hòu, jǐ jiā chéngbāoshāng hùxiāng tuīxiè zérèn, yánwù le péicháng jìnchéng. After the accident, several contractors shifted responsibility onto one another, delaying the compensation process.
- 出了问题不能互相推卸责任，应该一起想办法解决。 Chū le wèntí bùnéng hùxiāng tuīxiè zérèn, yīnggāi yīqǐ xiǎng bànfǎ jiějué. When a problem arises, we must not shift the blame onto each other; we should work out a solution together.
- 作为部门负责人，他从不会把工作推卸给下属。 Zuòwéi bùmén fùzérén, tā cóng bù huì bǎ gōngzuò tuīxiè gěi xiàshǔ. As head of the department, he never pushes his work off onto his subordinates.
Related words
- 推 tuī to push
- 推动 tuīdòng to push forward; to promote
- 推广 tuīguǎng to promote; to spread
- 推进 tuījìn to advance; to push forward
- 推开 tuīkāi to push open; to push away
- 推迟 tuīchí to postpone
- 推销 tuīxiāo to promote and sell
- 推行 tuīxíng to carry out; to put into practice
- 推测 tuīcè to speculate, to guess
- 推崇 tuīchóng to esteem highly; to advocate
- 推辞 tuīcí to decline; to refuse politely
- 推断 tuīduàn to infer; to deduce