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废

fèi

discard, abandon

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 发 represents the sound. Simplified form of 廢.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

发 sound component

发  Sound component

fā, fà

  

issue

Evolution

废 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
废 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
废 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
废 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

废 (廢) 

fèi

abrogate, terminate, discard; to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste

废 (癈) 

fèi

variant of 廢|废[fèi]; disabled

Most common words with 废
Freq.
Word
Meaning

废话

nonsense

废

to abolish

废物

rubbish

废弃

to discard

废墟

ruins

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 35.0473% of movies

1132nd most common character in movies

1376th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

廢

Unicode

U+5E9F


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