Simplified form of 棄. Pictograph of two hands (廾) putting a child (子) in a basket (其) for the purpose of abandoning or disposing with it. The traditional component 其 was removed for simplification.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

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