Meaning & readings
abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
Origin
This character likely combines the image of a tree or wooden object with the concept of something being cast aside. The left side contains the tree radical, suggesting something made of wood or a natural object. The right side appears to show a hand or arm in a throwing or rejecting gesture, visually depicting the act of pushing something away or abandoning it. Together, the strokes create a picture of the physical action of discarding or throwing something down, which is why the character came to mean "abandon" or "throw away."
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (棄).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 75
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #901 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+068C4