棄 — kanji meaning “abandon”
棄
abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
- Meanings
- abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
- On'yomi
- キ (ki)
- Kun'yomi
- す.てる
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #901 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 75
- Chinese reading
- qì — Chinese character page
Words with 棄
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 放棄 | ほうき houki | abandonment; renouncement; renunciation |
| 廃棄 | はいき haiki | disposal; abandonment; scrapping |
| 破棄 | はき haki | tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction |
| 棄権 | きけん kiken | abstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest) |
| 棄却 | ききゃく kikyaku | rejection; dismissal; turning down |
| 投棄 | とうき touki | abandonment; giving up; throwing away |
| 遺棄 | いき iki | abandonment; desertion |
| 自暴自棄 | じぼうじき jiboujiki | desperation; despair; self-abandonment |
| 自棄 | やけ yake | desperation; despair; self-abandonment |
| 棄教 | ききょう kikyou | apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection |
| 自棄 | じき jiki | desperation; self-abandonment |
| 棄民 | きみん kimin | abandoned people (people left to fend for themselves after a war or natural disaster) |
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