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棄 kanji
abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
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Variant forms
弃Words with 棄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1棄権Popularabstention (from voting); renunciation (of a right); withdrawal (from a contest)
- N1破棄Populartearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; abrogation; voiding; breaking (e.g. a treaty); reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
- N1廃棄Populardisposal; abandonment; scrapping; discarding; abolition; annulment; cancellation; abrogation; repeal
- N1放棄Popularabandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender; relinquishing; waiving; giving up
- —棄却Popularrejection; dismissal; turning down; abandoning; renunciation
- —遺棄Popularabandonment; desertion
- —投棄Popularabandonment; giving up; throwing away; disposal; dumping
- —廃棄物Popularwaste matter; waste; garbage; trash
- —棄市execution by decapitation followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China)
- —棄世death
- —棄背giving up and turning back
- —棄約breaking a promise
- —棄老historical or legendary practice of abandoning old people in the mountains, etc.
- —棄捐donation; abandonment
- —毀棄destruction; demolition; damage
- —唾棄disdain; contempt; scorn; abhorrence
- —棄教apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection
- —厭棄abandonment; rejection
- —棄民abandoned people (people left to fend for themselves after a war or natural disaster)
- —委棄waiving (a right); waiver; renunciation; abandonment; desertion