U+503A "债" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+503A "债" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "debt," "liability," or "obligation," and it is commonly used in financial and legal contexts in both modern and classical Chinese text. The character combines the radical for "person" on the left with the phonetic component "责" on the right, which itself carries meanings of responsibility or duty, together forming a concept of something owed by a person. In Chinese culture and language, this ideograph appears in terms such as "债务" for debt, "负债" for liabilities, and "债券" for bonds, reflecting its central role in economic discourse. As a part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is recognized across multiple East Asian writing systems, where it retains a similar meaning in Japanese and Korean as well.