Messed up when copying kanji from the board = trouble

fixelbrumpf

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16 Sep 2003

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I was going to look up a bunch of kanji compounds I had written down in class last week, but something tells me I made a mistake when copying one of them.

I simply can't find the second character anywhere. I'm not really sure which radical I messed up, either. Does anyone happen to know what this kanji compound was supposed to be if written correctly? Thanks in advance.

 

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epigene

相変わらず不束者です

10 Nov 2004

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• 6 Dec 2004

• #2

It looks like 「放棄」（ほうき）, meaning "to abandon."

Hope this helps!

 

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PaulTB

Manga Psychic

22 Jan 2004

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• 6 Dec 2004

• #3

fixelbrumpf said:

I simply can't find the second character anywhere. I'm not really sure which radical I messed up, either. Does anyone happen to know what this kanji compound was supposed to be if written correctly?

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Well it took a bit of doing but it seems to be
放棄
not, as I originally thought it looked like,
放葉

[EDIT] Ooops, look like I was beaten to the 'post' button.
and now I get to add
放棄 【ほうき】 (n,vs) abandonment; renunciation; abdication (responsibility, right); (P)
to my revision list.

 

Inuyasha-the-kid

後輩

17 Jul 2004

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• 6 Dec 2004

• #4

It is (shadash-ka)???????????

 

fixelbrumpf

先輩

16 Sep 2003

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• #5

I'm pretty sure it has to be 放棄. Thanks a lot, guys.

By the way, perhaps I'll have amassed enough wisdom one day to figure out what Inuyasha-the-kid is trying to say. Here's hoping.

 

Glenn

一切皆苦

8 Jan 2004

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• 6 Dec 2004

• #6

The mistake that you made in the pic is that you added a stroke to the "buckle" part, i.e. the bundle in the middle that looks similar to 世. It should be five strokes, with three vertical strokes, not four.