抛 pāo
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
抛弃
pāoqì
to abandon; to discard
Characters in this word
弃 qì
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 廾 — two hands
- Made of
- 亠 lid, cover 厶 private, secret 廾 two hands
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 如果企业为了短期利润抛弃质量标准，迟早会失去信誉。 Rúguǒ qǐyè wèile duǎnqī lìrùn pāoqì zhìliàng biāozhǔn, chízǎo huì shīqù xìnyù. If a company abandons quality standards for short-term profit, it will sooner or later lose credibility.
- 无论多难，他也不会抛弃自己的家人。 Wúlùn duō nán, tā yě bú huì pāoqì zìjǐ de jiārén. No matter how hard it gets, he would never abandon his family.
- 我们应该抛弃旧习惯，养成早睡早起的好习惯。 Wǒmen yīnggāi pāoqì jiù xíguàn, yǎngchéng zǎo shuì zǎo qǐ de hǎo xíguàn. We should give up old habits and form the good habit of going to bed and rising early.
Related words
- 抛 pāo to throw
- 放弃 fàngqì to give up
- 丢弃 diūqì to discard; to throw away
- 废弃 fèiqì to abandon; to discard
- 弃权 qìquán to abstain; to waive a right
- 唾弃 tuòqì to spurn; to reject with contempt
- 嫌弃 xiánqì to dislike; to look down on; to reject with disdain
- 遗弃 yíqì to abandon; to desert
- 排斥 páichì to reject; to exclude; to repel
- 迁就 qiānjiù to accommodate; to yield to
- 轻视 qīngshì to look down on; to neglect; to underestimate
- 谅解 liàngjiě to understand; to forgive; understanding