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抛弃

pāo qì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 拋棄

抛弃 (pāo qì) means "to abandon; to discard; to renounce". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 抛弃 means

1. to abandon
2. to discard
3. to renounce
4. to dump (sb)

The characters in 抛弃

• 抛pāoto throw; to toss; to fling
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard

Example sentences

• 汤姆抛弃了他们。
  Tom abandoned them.
• 她抛弃了她的孩子。
  Tā pāoqì le tā de háizi.
  She abandoned her children.
• 她们被母亲抛弃了。
  They were abandoned by their mother.
• 他为了钱抛弃自己的原则。
  Tā wèile qián pāoqì zìjǐ de yuánzé.
  He sold his principles for money.
• 他们被抛弃在一座荒岛上。
  Tāmen bèi pāoqì zài yī zuò huāngdǎo shàng.
  They were marooned on a desert isle.
• 她们被抛弃在一座荒岛上。
  Tāmen bèi pāoqì zài yī zuò huāngdǎo shàng.
  They were marooned on a desert isle.

Where 抛弃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pào–pī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pāo qì correctly.
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