棄

See also: 弃

棄	U+68C4, 棄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68C4

Translingual edit

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)

Historical forms of the character 棄
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

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.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qì
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cì
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴
  - Yale: chì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hei³
  - Yale: hei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: héi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hi / khi
  - Hakka Romanization System: hi / ki
  - Hagfa Pinyim: hi⁴ / ki⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /hi⁵⁵/, /kʰi⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ké
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɛi²¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khì
  - Tâi-lô: khì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰi¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ki³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi²¹³/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁵chi
  - MiniDict: chi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²qi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕʰi³⁴/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	棄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qì
Middle Chinese	‹ khjij^H ›
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.