棄保
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Chinese
abandon; relinquish; to discard abandon; relinquish; to discard; to throw away |
to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee; to maintain; hold or keep; to guard | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (棄保) | 棄 | 保 | |
| simp. (弃保) | 弃 | 保 | |
Etymology
The voting strategy sense comes from the idiom 棄車保帥.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ ㄅㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cìbǎo
- Wade–Giles: chʻi4-pao3
- Yale: chì-bǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chihbao
- Palladius: цибао (cibao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Verb
棄保
- (Taiwan, politics) tactical voting; to vote for a candidate who's not the voters the first choice in order to prevent rivals the voter against to won
- 當「棄保」發生時，選民會拋棄自己原本支持的政黨，把票投給另一黨的候選人。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2021, 小笠原欣幸 (Yoshiyuki Ogasawara), 《臺灣總統選舉》 (Taiwanese presidential election), page 25
- Dāng “qìbǎo” fāshēng shí, xuǎnmín huì pāoqì zìjǐ yuánběn zhīchí de zhèngdǎng, bǎ piào tóu gěi lìngyī dǎng de hòuxuǎnrén.
- When tactical voting happens, the voter will abandon the party they initially supports, vote for candidates in another party instead.
当「弃保」发生时，选民会抛弃自己原本支持的政党，把票投给另一党的候选人。 [MSC, simp.]
- Short for 棄保潛逃／弃保潜逃 (qìbǎoqiántáo, “to abscond”).