廢 (fèi)

Waste; useless; to abolish

How 廢 is written

Strokes
15
Radical
广 — house on cliff
Traditional
廢
Simplified
废

Components

  • 广 house on cliff
  • 癶 footsteps
  • 弓 bow
  • 殳 weapon/lance

Common words using 廢

廢物 fèiwù
rubbish; waste material; useless person
廢話 fèihuà
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
頹廢 tuífèi
decadent; dispirited; depressed
作廢 zuòfèi
to become invalid; to cancel; to delete
半途而廢 bàntúérfèi
to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
報廢 bàofèi
to scrap; to be written off
廢人 fèirén
handicapped person; useless person
廢品 fèipǐn
production rejects; seconds; scrap
廢墟 fèixū
ruins
廢寢忘食 fèiqǐnwàngshí
to neglect sleep and forget about food (idiom); to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
廢掉 fèidiào
to depose (a king)
廢棄 fèiqì
to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate

廢 in a sentence

別說廢話了!

Bié shuō fèihuà le!

“Stop talking nonsense!”

How common is 廢?

廢 is the 1,374th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.6% of all running text.

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