HSK 4 · Verbs

放弃 fàngqì “to renounce” in Chinese

Traditional 放棄

What 放弃 means

  1. to renounce
  2. to abandon
  3. to give up

How to say 放弃

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale放fàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale弃qì4th tone, falling

放弃 in a sentence

  1. 她不得不放弃梦想。

    Tā bùdébù fàngqì mèngxiǎng.

    She had to give up her dream.

    Sentence #2444549 from Tatoeba

  2. 公司放弃了那个项目。

    Gōngsī fàngqì le nà ge xiàngmù.

    The company abandoned that project.

    Sentence #336462 from Tatoeba

  3. 决不放弃。

    Jué bú fàngqì.

    Never give up.

    Sentence #3783106 from Tatoeba

How 放弃 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

The character 弃 (qì) with each of its parts in a different colour
弃qìto abandon
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 厶private · sī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

How to write 放弃

放 8 strokes · 弃 7 strokes

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放弃 (fàngqì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 放弃 (fàngqì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 放弃

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)播放bōfàng · to broadcast放大fàngdà · to enlarge解放jiěfàng · to liberate

Words with 弃

抛弃pāoqì · to abandon唾弃tuòqì · to spurn

More words: Common Verbs

放松fàngsōng · to relax发生fāshēng · to happen发展fāzhǎn · development翻译fānyì · to translate放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays符合fúhé · in keeping with负责fùzé · to be in charge of复印fùyìn · to photocopy

FAQs

放弃 (fàngqì) means “to renounce” or “to abandon”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fàngqì: fàng with a 4th tone, then qì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 放弃 is written 放棄. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放弃 from the suggestions. Typing fangqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放弃 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.