漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
棄: abandon, throw away
Also: discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亠 and 木 carry the meaning · 厶 and 丗 are drawn in
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 廃棄はいきdisposal; abandonment; scrapping
- 投棄とうき
- 棄権きけんabstention (from voting)
- 放棄ほうきabandonment; renouncement; renunciation
- 遺棄いきabandonment; desertion
- 棄却ききゃくrejection; dismissal; turning down
- 破棄はきtearing up and discarding (e.g. documents)
- 廃棄物はいきぶつwaste matter; waste; garbage
Also read すてる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丗
Also built on 丗
In ChineseSimplified 弃 · traditional, as in Japanese · qì
Japan keeps the traditional form 棄; mainland China simplifies it to 弃.
- Simplified
- 弃 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 棄 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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