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放弃

fàng qì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 放棄

放弃 (fàng qì) means "to give up/abandon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 放弃 means

1. to renounce; to abandon; to give up

The characters in 放弃

• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard

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!

Sounds the same

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

• 放气to release breath; to deflate; to fart

Where 放弃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Mental & cognitive actions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fàng qì correctly.
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