棄 - Dong Chinese dictionary

qì

abandon

Pictograph of two hands (廾) putting a child (子) in a basket (其) for the purpose of abandoning or disposing with it.

Components

子 Iconic component

zi, zǐ

child

Upside-down form of 子 (child).

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 子 than it was in ancient scripts.

其 Iconic component

qí

its, his, (3p possessive)

Depicts a basket.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 其 than it was in ancient scripts.

廾 Iconic component

gǒng

two hands

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 廾 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

弃 (棄)

qì

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

Most common words with 棄

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

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 55.9827% of movies

759th most common character in movies

1105th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Simplified	弃
Unicode	U+68C4
Shuowen	“棄，捐也。从廾推棄之，从，，逆子也。弃，古文棄。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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