棄

See also: 弃

棄 U+68C4, 棄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68C4 ← 棃 [U+68C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 棅 → [U+68C5]

Translingual

Han character

棄 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8 in Chinese, 木+9 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 卜戈廿木 (YITD), four-corner 0090₄, composition ⿳𠫓丗木)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 531, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14913
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1237, character 7
• Unihan data for U+68C4

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Chinese

trad.		棄
simp.		弃
alternative forms		弆 甭

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 子 (“child”) + 𠀠 (“basket”) + 廾 (“two hands”) - throwing out a child in a basket. 子 was often inverted as 𠫓.

In the oracle bone script form, 子 may appear with dots on either side of its head and body, perhaps representing amniotic fluid or dust.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 棄

1. to abandon; to discard; to reject
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

棄

(Jōyō kanji)

1. discard, throw out, throw away

Readings

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: すてる (suteru, 棄てる)

Compounds

Compounds

• 放棄(ほうき) (hōki), 抛棄(ほうき) (hōki): abandonment, giving up; renunciation

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Korean

Hanja

棄 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棄: Hán Nôm readings: khí

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