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棄

See also: 弃
棄 U+68C4, 棄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68C4
← 棃
[U+68C3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棅 →
[U+68C5]

Translingual

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Han character

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棄 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8 in Chinese, 木+9 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 卜戈廿木 (YITD), four-corner 00904, composition ⿳𠫓丗木)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 531, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14913
  • Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1237, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+68C4

Chinese

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trad. 棄
simp. 弃
alternative forms 弆
甭
弃 ancient form

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 棄
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
     

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 子 (“child”) + 𠀠 (“basket”) + 廾 (“two hands”) - throwing out a child in a basket. 子 was often inverted as 𠫓.

In the oracle bone script form, 子 may appear with dots on either side of its head and body, perhaps representing amniotic fluid or dust.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 棄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 詰利切
Baxter khjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰiH/
Li
Rong 		/kʰiH/
Wang
Li 		/kʰiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hei3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 棄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khjijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[kʰ]i[t]-s/
English throw away, abandon

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 棄
Reading # 1/1
No. 10171
Phonetic
component 		棄
Rime
group 		至
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		棄
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰlids/

Definitions

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棄

  1. to abandon; to discard; to reject
  2. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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棄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. discard, throw out, throw away

Readings

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  • Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
  • Kun: すてる (suteru, 棄てる)

Compounds

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Compounds

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Hanja

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棄 (eumhun 버릴 기 (beoril gi))

  1. hanja form? of 기 (“reject, abandon, discard”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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棄: Hán Nôm readings: khí

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