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Trad. 棄子
- 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[pao1 jia1 qi4 zi3]) to abandon one's child(ren)
Trad. 棄權
- to waive a right
- to abstain (from voting)
- (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily withdraw from a match
Trad. 棄養
- to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc)
- (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away
Trad. 自暴自棄
- to abandon oneself to despair
- to give up and stop bothering
Trad. 丟盔棄甲
- (idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat
Trad. 不離不棄
- to stand by (sb) (idiom)
- steadfast loyalty
Trad. 偶語棄市
- chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
Trad. 拋夫棄子
- to abandon one's husband and child(ren)
Trad. 拋妻棄子
- to abandon one's wife and child(ren)
Trad. 拋家棄子
- (of a parent) to abandon one's family
Trad. 棄惡從善
- to renounce evil and turn to virtue (idiom)
Trad. 棄暗投明
- to renounce the dark and seek the light
- to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one
Trad. 棄約背盟
- to abrogate an agreement
- to break one's oath (idiom)
Trad. 背信棄義
- breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray
- treachery
- perfidy
Trad. 棄若敝屣
- to throw away like worn out shoes
Trad. 棄農經商
- to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)
Trad. 棄邪歸正
- to give up evil and return to virtue
Trad. 前功盡棄
- to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom)
- all that has been achieved goes down the drain
Trad. 棄之如敝屣
- to toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)
Trad. 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴
- lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
- good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
Trad. 食之無味，棄之不甘
- see 食之無味，棄之可惜|食之无味，弃之可惜[shi2 zhi1 wu2 wei4 , qi4 zhi1 ke3 xi1]
Trad. 食之無味，棄之可惜
- 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