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废除

fèi chú

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

废除 (fèi chú) means "to abolish; to abrogate; to repeal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 废除 means

1. to abolish
2. to abrogate
3. to repeal

The characters in 废除

• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude

Example sentences

• 我们应该废除死刑。
  Wǒmen yīnggāi fèichú sǐxíng.
  We should abolish the death penalty.
• 美国废除了奴隶制度。
  Měiguó fèichú le núlì zhìdù.
  America did away with slavery.
• 那些旧法都被废除了。
  Those old laws were all done away with.
• 许多国家已经废除了死刑。
  Xǔduō guójiā yǐjīng fèichú le sǐxíng.
  Many countries have abolished capital punishment.
• 死刑在美国的很多州都被废除了。
  Sǐxíng zài Měiguó de hěn duō zhōu dōu bèi fèichú le.
  The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
• 美国在一八六三年废除了奴隶制度。
  Měiguó zài yī bā liù sān nián fèichú le núlìzhìdù.
  America did away with slavery in 1863.

Where 废除 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.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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