诿

to shirk / to give excuses

surname Wei

same as 逶 in 逶迤 winding, curved

to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

to shirk responsibility / to blame others / to pass the buck

to put the blame on sb else

mutually shirking responsibilities (idiom); each blaming the other / passing the buck to and fro / each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other