U+8CAC "責" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8CAC "責" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "duty," "responsibility," "blame," or "to reproach," and it is used in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing systems, where it appears as a component in various compounds related to accountability and criticism. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, a vast collection of characters standardized for digital text encoding across East Asian languages. Its structure combines the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝/貝) with an element suggesting "to prick" or "to pierce," metaphorically conveying the idea of owning debts or obligations, and it is frequently found in terms like "責任" (zé rèn, meaning responsibility) in Mandarin Chinese.