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弃

qì

HSK 4 Character Traditional 棄

What 弃 means

1. to abandon
2. to relinquish
3. to discard
4. to throw away

Example sentences

• 放弃。
  Quit.
• 放弃吧。
  Forget it.
• 我放弃。
  I give up.
• 决不放弃。
  Juébù fàngqì.
  Never give up.
• 不要放弃!
  Don't give up!
• 别放弃我!
  Don't abandon me!

Words starting with 弃

• 弃权qì quánto waive a right; to abstain (from voting); (sports) to forfeit (a game)…
• 弃婴qì yīngabandoned baby; to abandon an infant
• 弃世qì shìto leave this world; to die
• 弃剧qì jùto quit watching a TV series
• 弃取qì qǔ(literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting
• 弃子qì zǐsacrificed piece (in chess or Go); abandoned child…
• 弃守qì shǒuto give up defending; to yield; to surrender
• 弃市qì shìpublic execution (old)
• 弃舍qì shěto abandon; to give up
• 弃核qì héto renounce nuclear weapons
• 弃用qì yòngto stop using; to abandon; abandoned
• 弃绝qì juéto abandon; to forsake
• 弃置qì zhìto throw away; to discard
• 弃船qì chuánto abandon ship
• 弃养qì yǎngto abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc)…
• 弃恶从善qì è cóng shànto renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom)
• 弃约背盟qì yuē bèi méngto abrogate an agreement; to break one's oath (idiom)
• 弃农经商qì nóng jīng shāngto abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)
• 弃暗投明qì àn tóu míngto renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a…
• 弃旧图新qì jiù tú xīnto turn over a new leaf
• 弃保潜逃qì bǎo qián táoto jump bail
• 弃邪归正qì xié guī zhèngto give up evil and return to virtue
• 弃若敝屣qì ruò bì xǐto throw away like worn out shoes
• 弃之如敝屣qì zhī rú bì xǐto toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)

Words containing 弃

• 放弃fàng qìto renounce; to abandon; to give up
• 抛弃pāo qìto abandon; to discard; to renounce
• 遗弃yí qìto leave; to abandon
• 废弃fèi qìto discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
• 舍弃shě qìto give up; to abandon; to abort
• 丢弃diū qìto discard; to abandon
• 嫌弃xián qìto regard with disdain; to shun
• 唾弃tuò qìto spurn; to disdain
• 摒弃bìng qìto abandon; to discard; to spurn
• 自暴自弃zì bào zì qìto abandon oneself to despair; to give up and stop bothering
• 背弃bèi qìto abandon; to desert; to renounce
• 前功尽弃qián gōng jìn qìto waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the…
• 摈弃bìn qìto abandon; to discard; to cast away
• 捐弃juān qìto relinquish; to abandon
• 离弃lí qìto abandon
• 不离不弃bù lí bù qìto stand by (sb) (idiom); steadfast loyalty
• 背信弃义bèi xìn qì yìbreaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy
• 故旧不弃gù jiù bù qìdo not neglect old friends
• 割弃gē qìto discard; to abandon; to give (sth) up
• 荒弃huāng qìto abandon; to let go to waste
• 偶语弃市ǒu yǔ qì shìchance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
• 厌弃yàn qìto spurn; to reject
• 抛夫弃子pāo fū qì zǐto abandon one's husband and child(ren)
• 抛妻弃子pāo qī qì zǐto abandon one's wife and child(ren)

Characters that look like 弃

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 芬fēnperfume; fragrance
• 弄nòngto do; to manage; to handle
• 乒pīng(onomatopoeia) ping; bing
• 芥jièmustard
• 岑cénsmall hill

Sounds the same

Read qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 气gas; air; smell; weather
• 汽steam; vapor
• 器device; tool; utensil
• 迄as yet; until
• 泣to sob
• 契to carve; carved words; to agree
• 砌to build by laying bricks or stones
• 妻to marry off (a daughter)
• 讫finished
• 憩to rest
• 亟repeatedly; frequently
• 蟿(insect); Tryxalis masuta