摒 (bìng) · to discard, to get rid of, to set aside

Meanings

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

Characters

摒

bìng

discard / eliminate

Examples

HSK 5

我们应该摒弃旧观念。

Wǒmen yīnggāi bìngqì jiù guānniàn.

We should discard old ideas.

HSK 6

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 supplies the sound with a regular shift píng to 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.