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废墟

fèi xū

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 廢墟

废墟 (fèi xū) means "ruins". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 废墟 means

1. ruins

The characters in 废墟

• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 墟xūruins; (literary) village; variant of 圩

Example sentences

• 这些废墟年代久远。
  Zhèxiē fèixū niándài jiǔyuǎn.
  These ruins are ancient.
• 城堡如今已经成了废墟。
  The castle is now in ruins.
• 这座城市成为了一片废墟。
  The city fell into ruins.
• 一连串的爆炸使实验室成为废墟。
  Yīliánchuàn de bàozhà shǐ shíyànshì chéngwéi fèixū.
  A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
• 暴风雨过后，他们的房子成了废墟。
  Bàofēngyǔ guòhòu, tāmen de fángzi chéngle fèixū.
  After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

Where 废墟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fàng–fēn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fèi xū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.