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弃市

qì shì

2-character word Traditional 棄市

What 弃市 means

1. public execution (old)

The characters in 弃市

• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Words containing 弃市

• 偶语弃市ǒu yǔ qì shìchance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read qì shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 气势imposing manner; loftiness; grandeur
• 气室air cell (inside an egg)
• 弃世to leave this world; to die

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