noun, takes する

  1. abandonment, renunciation, resignation, abdication (responsibility, right).

Variations

Pronunciation Kanji Kana Is Common
放棄 ほうき
抛棄 ほうき

Contained Kanji Breakdown

set free, release, fire
ホウ ほう.る はな.す (3rd, N3)
direction, person, alternative
ホウ かた なた (2nd, N4)
dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
チュ (Kentei 1)
ten thousand, 10,000
バン マン よろず (2nd, N5)
one, one radical (no.1)
イチ いっ ひと- (1st, N5)
wrapping enclosure, wrapping radical (no. 20)
ホウ つつ.む (Kentei 1)
strike, hit, folding chair radical variant (no. 66)
ホク (Kentei 1)
person(人) variant
mow, cut grass, subdue
ガイ ゲ おさ.める (Kentei 1)
abandon, throw away, discard
キ す.てる (8th, N1)
inverted child
kettle lid radical (no. 8)
トウ (Kentei 1)
I, myself, katakana mu radical (no. 28)
シ ボウ ム (Kentei 1)
thirty
セイ セ ソウ (Kentei 1)
thirty
ソウ さんじゅう (Kentei 1)
twenty, twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
キョウ ク にじゅう (Kentei 1)
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
かわ セン か (1st, N5)
twenty
にじゅう ジュウ ニュウ (Kentei Pre-1)
tree, wood
き モク こ- (1st, N5)