弃
to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,300 U+5F03
How 弃 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two hands 廾 discarding a dead, swaddled baby 亠厶
components: 亠 厶 廾
How to remember it
forsake · Heisig RSH #1917
infant + two hands
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 弃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 食之无味，弃之不甘 | shí zhī wú wèi , qì zhī bù gān | see 食之無味，棄之可惜|食之无味，弃之可惜[shi2 zhi1 wu2 wei4 , qi4 zhi1 ke3 xi1] |
| 不离不弃 | bù lí bù qì | to stand by (sb) (idiom); steadfast loyalty |
| 背信弃义 | bèi xìn qì yì | breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy |
| 自暴自弃 | zì bào zì qì | to abandon oneself to despair; to give up and stop bothering |
| 食之无味，弃之可惜 | shí zhī wú wèi , qì zhī kě xī | lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom); fig. s… |
| 弃旧图新 | qì jiù tú xīn | to turn over a new leaf |
| 弃农经商 | qì nóng jīng shāng | to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom) |
| 故旧不弃 | gù jiù bù qì | do not neglect old friends |
| 弃暗投明 | qì àn tóu míng | to renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a … |
| 弃子 | qì zǐ | sacrificed piece (in chess or Go); abandoned child; (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or … |
| 前功尽弃 | qián gōng jìn qì | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drai… |
| 弃市 | qì shì | public execution (old) |
| 偶语弃市 | ǒu yǔ qì shì | chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom) |
| 弃用 | qì yòng | to stop using; to abandon; abandoned; deprecated |
| 弃世 | qì shì | to leave this world; to die |
| 抛家弃子 | pāo jiā qì zǐ | (of a parent) to abandon one's family |
| 放弃 | fàng qì | to renounce; to abandon; to give up |
| 弃恶从善 | qì è cóng shàn | to renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom) |
| 弃权 | qì quán | to waive a right; to abstain (from voting); (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily w… |
| 弃约背盟 | qì yuē bèi méng | to abrogate an agreement; to break one's oath (idiom) |