弃
qì HSK5

abandon

弃 (棄) qì
abandon verb
to desert, leave behind, or relinquish a person, duty, or right

在关键时刻，他竟然弃城而逃。

zài guān​jiàn shí​kè, tā jìng​rán qì chéng ér táo.

At the critical moment, he actually abandoned the city and fled.

discard verb
to throw away or dispose of something as useless or no longer wanted

这台电脑已经坏得没法修了，不如弃了。

zhè tái diàn​nǎo yǐ​jīng huài de méi​fǎ xiū le, bù rú qì le.

This computer is broken beyond repair; better just scrap it.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,105th most common 133.0 per million
Movie subtitles
759th most common 167.5 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
15.4 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
22.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
棄
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5F03

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)