弃取

棄取

qìqǔ

verb

Meanings

1 to choose between rejecting and accepting
2 to decide what to discard and what to keep

Characters

abandon, discard

Examples

面对这些方案，他难以弃取。

Miànduì zhèxiē fāng'àn, tā nányǐ qìqǔ.

Faced with these proposals, he had difficulty deciding what to keep and what to reject.

学问的关键在于善于弃取。

Xuéwèn de guānjiàn zàiyú shànyú qìqǔ.

The key to scholarship lies in knowing how to choose what to keep and what to discard.

Tips

register

Literary. The two characters are antonyms (弃 'discard' + 取 'take') joined to mean the act of choosing between them. Modern equivalents: 取舍 (qǔshě) — same idea but with the order reversed.

Stroke Order

弃 qì

取 qǔ