弃
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to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 廾 +4
- Structure
- Top–middle–bottom 上中下
- Traditional
- 弃
- Common rank
- #1,300
- Unicode
- U+5F03
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
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 with 弃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 食之无味，弃之不甘 | 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 | to stand by (sb) (idiom); steadfast loyalty | |
| 背信弃义 | breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy | |
| 自暴自弃 | to abandon oneself to despair; to give up and stop bothering | |
| 食之无味，弃之可惜 | lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom); fig. s… | |
| 弃旧图新 | to turn over a new leaf | |
| 弃农经商 | to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom) | |
| 故旧不弃 | do not neglect old friends | |
| 弃暗投明 | to renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a … | |
| 弃子 | sacrificed piece (in chess or Go); abandoned child; (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or … | |
| 前功尽弃 | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drai… | |
| 弃市 | public execution (old) | |
| 偶语弃市 | chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom) | |
| 弃用 | to stop using; to abandon; abandoned; deprecated | |
| 弃世 | to leave this world; to die | |
| 抛家弃子 | (of a parent) to abandon one's family | |
| 放弃 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 弃恶从善 | to renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom) | |
| 弃权 | to waive a right; to abstain (from voting); (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily w… | |
| 弃约背盟 | to abrogate an agreement; to break one's oath (idiom) |