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棄

棄

See also: 弃

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 棄
simp. 弃
alt. forms 弆
甭

Pronunciation

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
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
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

棄

  1. to abandon; to discard; to reject
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

棄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

棄 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棄 (khí)

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