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HSK
to renounce; to abandon; to give up
HSK 5
to discard / to abandon
HSK 7-9
to spurn; to reject
to abandon / to discard / to renounce / to dump (sb)
HSK 7-9
to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
to regard with disdain; to shun
HSK 7-9
to give up / to abandon / to abort
to leave / to abandon
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat
to stop using / to abandon / abandoned / deprecated
to stand by (sb) (idiom) / steadfast loyalty
to discard / to abandon (old ways) / to invalidate
to spurn / to disdain
to abandon / to discard / to spurn / to forsake
to abandon / to give up
abandoned baby
to abandon / to forsake
to spurn / to reject
to abandon an infant / abandoned baby
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弃* | 弃* | *弃
to abandon / to relinquish / to discard / to throw away
to leave this world / to die
sacrificed piece (in chess or Go) / abandoned child / (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or sacrificed (an ally, a product, employees etc) / (in expressions such as 拋家棄子|抛家弃子) to abandon one's child(ren)
to renounce the dark and seek the light / to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one
to quit watching a TV series
public execution (old)
to discard / to abandon / to give (sth) up
to renounce nuclear weapons
to abandon oneself to despair / to give up and stop bothering
to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc) / (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
to disdain / to loathe
to abandon ship
to abandon one's wife and child(ren)
do not neglect old friends
to give up evil and return to virtue
zero waste
to throw away like worn out shoes
to cast away / to reject / to shun / to desert one's post
(literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting
(of a parent) to abandon one's family
to toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)
to throw away / to discard
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
to abandon / to discard / to cast away
to give up defending / to yield / to surrender
to renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom)
to abandon / to discard / to throw away
to abandon
chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)
to waive a right / to abstain (from voting) / (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily withdraw from a match
to abrogate an agreement / to break one's oath (idiom)
to abandon one's husband and child(ren)
to abandon / to discard / to throw away
to turn over a new leaf
to abandon / to let go to waste
to relinquish / to abandon
to jump bail
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them


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