弃之可惜，食之无味棄之可惜，食之無味 in English
- (idiom) Describes something that seems a pity to discard but offers little value or usefulness. It leaves one caught between keeping it and getting rid of it.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
弃
These are the forms of 棄, the traditional character: 弃 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
可
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
惜
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
食
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
无
These are the forms of 無, the traditional character: 无 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 24 forms
味
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).