弃 (qì): meaning and stroke order
弃 (qì) means to abandon, to relinquish, to discard, to throw away.
弃
- Simplified
- 弃
- Traditional
- 棄
- Pinyin
- qì
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Stroke order of 弃
弃
- qì to abandon; to relinquish
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 棄
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Meaning of 弃
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qì
Traditional 棄
- to abandon
- to relinquish
- to discard
- to throw away
Radical and structure
- 弃
- Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 7 strokes · 亠 on top, 弁 below
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Words with 弃
- 放弃 fàng qì to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- 前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn qì to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).