| Chinese Text Project |
| 棄 U+68C4 |  Seal script |  Jinwen | 弃 Semantic variant Simplified character | 𢍞 Semantic variant | 𨓋 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 木+ 8 strokes = 12 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.353#14 Kangxi: p.531#15 Cihai: p.702r4c01 GSR: 535.a Hanyu: v2,p1237#07 |
| Composition: | Component of: 𠾍 𣙆 𮑒 |
| Mandarin: | qì ㄑㄧˋ |
| Cantonese: | hei3 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *kì |
| Shuowen: | 《𠦒部》棄：捐也。从廾推𠦒棄之，从𠫓。𠫓，逆子也。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·去聲·至·棄》棄：《說文》捐也。詰利切，五。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·木部·八》棄：〔古文〕弃𢍞𨓋《唐韻》詰利切《韻會》磬致切《正韻》去冀切，𠀤音器。《說文》捐也。《爾雅·釋言》忘也。《詩·周南》不我遐棄。《禮·冠禮·祝辭》棄爾幼志，順爾成德。 考證：〔《爾雅·釋詁》忘也。〕謹照原書釋詁改釋言。〔《詩·召南》不我遐棄。〕謹照原書召南改周南。 |
| Fanqie: | 詰利 (《廣韻·去聲·至·棄》) |
| Unihan definition: | reject, abandon, discard |
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[Show proper names]Example usage
| 《論語·公冶長》: | 崔子弒齊君，陳文子有馬十乘，棄而違之。 |
| When the officer Cui killed the prince of Qi, Chen Wen, though he was the owner of forty horses, abandoned them and left the country. | |
| 《孟子·盡心上》: | 孟子曰：「有為者辟若掘井，掘井九軔而不及泉，猶為棄井也。」 |
| Mencius said, 'A man with definite aims to be accomplished may be compared to one digging a well. To dig the well to a depth of seventy-two cubits, and stop without reaching the spring, is after all throwing away the well.' | |
| 《禮記·檀弓下》: | 工尹商陽與陳棄疾追吳師，及之。 |
| Shang Yang, director of Works (in Chu), and Chen Qi-ji were pursuing the army of Wu, and came up with it. | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 棄常珍而嗜乎異饌者，惡睹其識味也？ |
| As for one who rejects the regular delicacies and is fond of strange dishes, how do you know that he can recognize tastes? | |
| 《莊子·德充符》: | 仲尼曰：「丘也，嘗使於楚矣，適見㹠子食於其死母者，少焉眴若，皆棄之而走。」 |
| Zhongni said, 'Once when I was sent on a mission to Qi, I saw some pigs sucking at their dead mother. After a little they looked with rapid glances, when they all left her, and ran away.' | |
| 《道德經》: | 絕聖棄智，民利百倍。 |
| If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold. | |
| 《商君書·算地》: | 夫棄天物，遂民淫者，世主之務過也，而上下事之，故民眾而兵弱，地大而力小。 |
| Now, to neglect natural resources and to pander to the people's dissipations is to fail in one's duty as a ruler, and when high and low act thus, then in spite of a large population, the army will be weak, and in spite of a big territory, its strength will be small. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 舜曰：「棄，黎民始饑，汝后稷播時百穀。」 |
| Shun said, 'Qi, the black-haired people begin to be famished. Do you, Prince Millet, sow in their seasons the various kinds of grain.' | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 故大者不能，小者不為，是棄國捐身之道也。 |
| 《說苑·脩文》: | 棄主稷，百穀時茂。 |
| 《春秋繁露·玉英》: | 宣公不與其子而與其弟，其弟亦不與子而反之兄子，雖不中法，皆有讓高，不可棄也。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷一》: | 受子貢觴，迎流而挹之，奐然而棄之，促流而挹之，奐然而溢之，坐、置之沙上，曰：「禮固不親受。」 |
| 《大戴禮記·主言》: | 是故聖人等之以禮，立之以義，行之以順，而民棄惡也如灌。 |
| 《白虎通德論·號》: | 故黃金棄於山，珠玉捐於淵，巖居穴處，衣皮毛，飲泉液，吮露英，虛無寥廓，與天地通靈也。 |
| 《新書·大政上》: | 不反民之罪而重之，不滅民之功而棄之。 |
| 《新序·善謀下》: | 且夫天下游士，捐其親戚，棄墳墓，去故舊，從陛下游者，皆日夜望尺寸之地，今復立韓、魏、燕、趙、齊、楚之後，其王皆復立，游士各歸事其主，從其親戚。 |
| 《中論·脩本》: | 以利之有盈縮而棄其資貨者，非良賈也。 |
| 《孔子家語·相魯》: | 享而既具，是棄禮也。 |
| 《潛夫論·遏利》: | 此皆能棄利約身，故無怨於人，世厚天祿，令問不止。 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 長數仞之竹，大連抱之木，工技之人，裁而用之，或成器而見舉持，或遺材而遭廢棄。 |
| 《太玄經·周》: | 上九，還于喪，或棄之行。 |
| 《風俗通義》: | 及嬴氏之亡，遺脫漏棄，無見之者。 |
| 《孔叢子·廣言》: | 放、投，棄也。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 一曰不知，二曰不進，三曰不任，四曰不終，五曰以小怨棄大德，六曰以小過黜大功，七曰以小失掩大美，八曰以奸訐傷忠正，九曰以邪說亂正度，十曰以讒嫉廢賢能。 |
| 《忠經·保孝行章》: | 若思孝而忘忠，猶求福而棄天。 |
| 《素書·遵義章》: | 自厚而薄人者棄廢。 |
| 《新語·道基》: | 於是中聖乃設辟雍庠序之教，以正上下之儀，明父子之禮、君臣之義，使強不凌弱、眾不暴寡，棄貪鄙之心，興清潔之行。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 周棄亦播殖百穀，以稷五穀之長也，因以稷名其神也。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 周棄亦播殖百穀，以稷五穀之長也，因以稷名其神也。 |
| 《墨子·經下》: | 一偏棄之，謂而固是也，說在因。 |
| 《列子·仲尼》: | 《詩》《書》禮樂，何棄之有？ |
| 《鶡冠子·世兵》: | 湯能以七十里放桀，武王以百里伐紂，知一不煩，千方萬曲，所雜齊同，勝道不一，知者計全，明將不倍時而棄利，勇士不怯死而滅名，欲喻至德之美者，其慮不與俗同，欲驗九天之高者，行不徑請，是以忠臣不先其身而後其君，寒心孤立懸命，將軍野戰，則國弊民罷，城守則食人灼骸，計失，其國削主困，為天下笑，持國計者可以無詳乎？ |
| 《文子·道原》: | 夫至人之治也，棄其聰明，滅其文章，依道廢智，與民同出乎公。 |
| 《文始真經·一宇》: | 關尹子曰：「以事建物則難，以道棄物則易。」 |
| 《列仙傳·范蠡》: | 後棄之，蘭陵賣藥。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 不貴難得之貨，言人君不御好珍寶，黃金棄於山，珠玉捐於淵也。 |
| 《韓非子·初見秦》: | 夫以大王之明，秦兵之強，棄霸王之業，地曾不可得，乃取欺於亡國，是謀臣之拙也。 |
| 《慎子·威德》: | 凡立公，所以棄私也。 |
| 《諫逐客書》: | 今棄擊甕叩缶而就鄭衛，退彈箏而取昭虞，若是者何也？ |
| 《管子·輕重戊》: | 「禽獸者，群害也，明王之所棄逐也，今齊以其重寶貴買吾群害，則是楚之福也，天且以齊私楚也，子告吾民，急求生鹿，以盡齊之寶」，楚民即釋其耕農而田鹿 |
| 《吳子·圖國》: | 禁暴救亂曰義，恃眾以伐曰彊，因怒興師曰剛，棄禮貪利曰暴，國亂人疲舉事動眾曰逆。 |
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