棄

棄 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8 in Chinese, 木+9 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 卜戈廿木 (YITD), four-corner 0090₄, composition ⿳𠫓丗木)

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

Historical forms of the character 棄
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 子 (“child”) + 𠀠 (“basket”) + 廾 (“two hands”) - throwing out a child in a basket. 子 was often inverted as 𠫓.

In the oracle bone script form, 子 may appear with dots on either side of its head and body, perhaps representing amniotic fluid or dust.

棄

1. to abandon; to discard; to reject
2. a surname

• “棄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. discard, throw out, throw away

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: すてる (suteru, 棄てる)

棄 (eumhun 버릴 기 (beoril gi))

1. Hanja form^? of 기 (“reject, abandon, discard”).

棄: Hán Nôm readings: khí

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