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Mandarin · pinyin rén qiú

person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents)
(esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment

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(especially Taiwan) somebody whom no one is willing to take care of or take in (i.e. like a ball that is kicked around); (medicine) rejected patient (Classifier: 顆／颗 m)