Character: 棄
Modern (Beijing) reading: qì
Preclassic Old Chinese: khlǝps
Classic Old Chinese: khǝć
Western Han Chinese: khǝś
Eastern Han Chinese: khǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: khɨś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khɨ̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: khɨ̀j
Middle Chinese: khjì
English meaning : to throw away, discard, reject, abandon
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бросить, отбросить; оставить, покинуть; отказаться от..., воздержаться от...; 2) упразднить, отменить; 3) забыть; 4) продать
Comments: The character obviously has 葉 *lhap as phonetic, which accounts for the reconstruction of *-l-; this medial can possibly also explain the otherwise strange MC -j- (normally khjì would presuppose an OC form like *khić, but the word 棄 rhymes in *-ǝć in Shijing, the analysis in ROCP 572 being incorrect).
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 5359
Karlgren code: 0535 a-b
Shijing occurrences: 10.2_
