Amazing Chinese Characters (440) Abandon - 弃 (棄）

 The shell bone script of character Abandon is

The top is upside down character Child, the bottom are two hands. In ancient time, because there were not enough foods, sometimes, people just abandoned the new born babies. 

Another shell bone script 

The top is a baby, the middle is a bamboo basket, the bottom are two hands. People put the baby in the basket to abandon.

The bronze script of the character is

The top middle is a upside down baby two hands on bottom sides, the rest is the bamboo basket.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

Still some similarity to old scripts.

The clerical script of the character is

The top baby is not like baby anymore. the bottom two hands become two dots.

The song typeface of traditional character is

棄

Similar to clerical script.

The song typeface of simplified character is

弃

The top is same as that in traditional character, but the bottom is totally changed.

You may see often the clerical script like the one below

which is the simplified character.

The pinyin of the character is Qi4.