摒 (bìng): to discard

Meanings

1 to discard
2 to get rid of
3 to set aside

Characters

摒

bìng

discard / eliminate

Examples

我们应该摒弃旧观念。

Wǒmen yīnggāi bìngqì jiù guānniàn.

We should discard old ideas.

他摒除了所有的杂念，专心工作。

Tā bìngchú le suǒyǒu de zániàn, zhuānxīn gōngzuò.

He set aside all distracting thoughts and focused on work.

Tips

usage

摒 rarely appears alone; it most commonly occurs in compounds: 摒弃 (bìngqì, to abandon), 摒除 (bìngchú, to get rid of), and 摒挡 (bìngdàng, to put in order).

memory

Think of 摒 as 手 (hand) + 屏 (screen/shield): you use your hand to screen out what you don't want.

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand

Hand radical on the left, the indexing component and a contracted form of 手. It marks 摒 as a hand-driven action — pushing aside, discarding, getting rid of — alongside 排 push away, 抛 hurl, 扔 throw. The hand makes 摒 a deliberate physical removal, not just a passive losing.

phonetic

屏 píng

screen; to ward off

Right side 屏 píng supplies the sound with a regular shift píng → bìng (same final). It also lends meaning: 屏 already means 'to screen off, ward away' (as in 屏除), so adding 扌 makes the hand-action explicit. A near-synonym pair where the hand-version stresses doing.