qì
abandon
Simplified form of 棄. Pictograph of two hands (廾) putting a child (子) in a basket (其) for the purpose of abandoning or disposing with it. The traditional component 其 was removed for simplification.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]i[t]-s | khjijH | qì | throw away, abandon |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 55.9827% of movies
759th most common character in movies
1105th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5F03 |
Shuowen | “棄,捐也。从廾推棄之,从,,逆子也。弃,古文棄。” |
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