ABANDON   

DISCARD SOMEONE WHOM ONE SHOULD CARE FOR.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general term for discarding something reluctantly, abandoning what one would have liked to keep or continue to do, is qì 棄.
Hypernym
  • DISCARD　DISPLACE something so as to VOLUNTARILY CAUSE ONESELF to LACK it. (anc: 12/0, child: 4)
  • DISPLACE　CAUSE to MOVE. (anc: 11/0, child: 28)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 3

    • Words (2 items)

    棄  qì MC: khjijH OC: khils 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNabandonCH
    • vtoNreflexive.自abandon one's real selfCH
    舍  shě MC: syaeX OC: lʰaʔ 4 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Result: 失/LOSE The dominant general word for to lose is shī 失 (ant. dé 得 "get") which refers to any disappearance of something which belonged to one in any sense, but the emphasis tends to be on the loss being the result of a mistake rather than mere insouciance.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNabstract=捨 abandonCH