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弃

qì

abandon

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.

Components
子 iconic component

子  Iconic component

zi, zǐ

  

child

Upside-down form of 子 (child).

其 deleted component

其  Deleted component

qí

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

The traditional component 其 depicting a basket was removed for simplification.

廾 iconic component

廾  Iconic component

gǒng

  

two hands

Evolution

弃 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
弃 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
弃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
弃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

弃 (棄) 

qì

reject, abandon, discard; to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away

Most common words with 弃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

放弃

to renounce

抛弃

to abandon

弃

to abandon

弃权

to forfeit

遗弃

to leave

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]i[t]-s

khjijH

qì

throw away, abandon


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 55.9827% of movies

759th most common character in movies

1105th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

棄

Unicode

U+5F03

Shuowen

“棄，捐也。从廾推棄之，从，，逆子也。弃，古文棄。”


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