fèi
discard, abandon
Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 發 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[p-k]ap-s | pjojH | fèi | cast aside |
*pat-s | pjojH | fèi | great |
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 | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5EE2 |
Shuowen | “廢,屋頓也。从广,發聲。” |
Sources
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