HSK 6 · Verbs

抛弃 pāoqì “to abandon” in Chinese

Traditional 拋棄

What 抛弃 means

  1. to abandon
  2. to discard
  3. to renounce
  4. to dump (sb)

How to say 抛弃

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale抛pāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale弃qì4th tone, falling

抛弃 in a sentence

  1. 他为了钱抛弃自己的原则。

    Tā wèile qián pāoqì zìjǐ de yuánzé.

    He abandoned his principles for money.

    Sentence #5550017 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他们被抛弃在一座荒岛上。

    Tāmen bèi pāoqì zài yí zuò huāngdǎo shàng.

    They were marooned on a desert island.

    Sentence #817248 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他抛弃了家人，移居大溪地。

    Tā pāoqì le jiārén, yíjū Dàxīdì.

    He abandoned his family and moved to Tahiti.

    Sentence #13917174 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 抛弃 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 抛 (pāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
抛pāoto throw
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 九nine · jiǔ
  • 力strength · lì
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 抛弃

抛 7 strokes · 弃 7 strokes

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

Words related to 抛弃

Words with 弃

放弃fàngqì · to renounce唾弃tuòqì · to spurn

More words: Common Verbs

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FAQs

抛弃 (pāoqì) means “to abandon” or “to discard”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pāoqì: pāo with a 1st 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, 抛弃 is written 拋棄. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type paoqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抛弃 from the suggestions. Typing paoqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抛弃 is an HSK 6 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.