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遗弃

yí qì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 遺棄

遗弃 (yí qì) means "to leave; to abandon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 遗弃 means

1. to leave
2. to abandon

The characters in 遗弃

• 遗yí(bound form) to leave behind
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard

Example sentences

• 他觉得被社会遗弃了。
  Tā juéde bèi shèhuì yíqì le.
  He felt alienated from society.
• 那幢房子看起来被遗弃了。
  That house appears deserted.
• 一个牧羊人把他一身白雪的山羊赶进被遗弃的山洞躲避暴风雪。
  A goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a deserted cave for shelter.
• 一个牧羊人把赶着全身盖白雪的山羊进去被遗弃的山洞躲避暴风雪。
  Yī gè mùyángrén bǎ gǎn zhe quánshēn gài báixuě de shānyáng jìnqù bèi yíqì de shāndòng duǒbì bàofēngxuě.
  A goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a deserted cave for shelter.

Sounds the same

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

• 仪器instrument; apparatus
• 彝器sacrificial vessel

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yí qì correctly.
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