(qì) - to abandon, to give up (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
qìTraditional: 弃
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Translation
to abandon, to give up (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character depicting two hands casting away a basket holding a child, conveying the sense of abandoning or discarding.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- hands casting away a basket, depicting abandonment
Stroke order
弃
Examples
。
Do not give up on your dream.
。
He gave up this opportunity.
。
I will never give up.
。
Do not easily abandon your dreams.
抛旧。
He cast off his old habits.
弃 (qì) is a bound morpheme meaning to abandon; the everyday compound is 放弃 (fàngqì), to give up.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 弃.
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