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废

fèi

HSK 5 Character Traditional 廢

What 废 means

1. to abolish
2. to abandon
3. to abrogate
4. to discard
5. to depose
6. to oust
7. crippled
8. abandoned
9. waste

Other readings

废 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• fèivariant of {废|fèi}; disabled

Example sentences

• 不要说废话！
  Don't talk nonsense!
• 这是什么废话？
  Zhè shì shénme fèihuà?
  What is this nonsense?
• 不要半途而废。
  Bù yào bàntú'érfèi.
  Once you have begun to do something, never give up.
• 这是什幺废话？
  What is this nonsense?
• 请给我一张废纸。
  Qǐng gěi wǒ yī zhāng fèizhǐ.
  Please get me a scrap of paper.
• 我们应该废除死刑。
  Wǒmen yīnggāi fèichú sǐxíng.
  We should abolish the death penalty.

Words starting with 废

• 废话fèi huànonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
• 废墟fèi xūruins
• 废除fèi chúto abolish; to abrogate; to repeal
• 废弃fèi qìto discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
• 废物fèi wùrubbish; waste material; useless person
• 废纸fèi zhǐwaste paper
• 废品fèi pǐnproduction rejects; seconds; scrap
• 废旧fèi jiùworn out; old-fashioned and dilapidated
• 废止fèi zhǐto repeal (a law); to put an end to; abolition
• 废水fèi shuǐwaste water; drain water; effluent
• 废气fèi qìexhaust gas; industrial waste gas
• 废寝忘食fèi qǐn wàng shí(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
• 废铁fèi tiěscrap iron
• 废人fèi rénhandicapped person; useless person
• 废料fèi liàowaste products; refuse; garbage
• 废土fèi tǔwaste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc); (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
• 废掉fèi diàoto depose (a king)
• 废时fèi shíto waste time
• 废材fèi cáiuseless person; good-for-nothing
• 废案fèi ànscrapped plan, proposal, or design
• 废液fèi yèwaste liquids
• 废然fèi rándepressed; dejected
• 废热fèi rèwaste heat
• 废统fèi tǒng"abandonment of reunification", abolition of the cross-straits reunification committee

Words containing 废

• 作废zuò fèito become invalid; to cancel; to delete
• 半途而废bàn tú ér fèito give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
• 颓废tuí fèidecadent; dispirited; depressed
• 报废bào fèito scrap; to dispose of (sth worn-out or damaged)
• 荒废huāng fèito abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste
• 残废cán fèideformity; handicapped
• 窝囊废wō nang fèi(colloquial) spineless coward; wimp; a good-for-nothing
• 收废站shōu fèi zhàngarbage collection point; trash dump
• 核废物hé fèi wùnuclear waste
• 说废话shuō fèi huàto talk nonsense; to bullshit
• 以人废言yǐ rén fèi yánto reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects)…
• 计划报废jì huà bào fèiplanned obsolescence
• 不以人废言bù yǐ rén fèi yánnot to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects)…
• 放射性废物fàng shè xìng fèi wùradioactive waste
• 计划性报废jì huà xìng bào fèiplanned obsolescence
• 低放射性废物dī fàng shè xìng fèi wùlow-level waste
• 逃废táo fèito evade (repayment of debts)
• 偏废piān fèito give unequal emphasis to; doing some things at the expense of others
• 旷废kuàng fèito neglect (work); to waste (one's talents)
• 耍废shuǎ fèi(Taiwan; slang) to pass time idly; to chill; to hang out
• 颓废派tuí fèi pàidecadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe)
• 因噎废食yīn yē fèi shílit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's…
• 三废sān fèithree types of waste product, namely: waste water 废水
• 零废弃líng fèi qìzero waste

Characters that look like 废

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 度dùto pass; to spend (time); measure
• 质zhìcharacter; nature; quality
• 疫yì(bound form) epidemic; plague
• 厘líone hundredth; centi-
• 炭tànwood charcoal; coal
• 茬chástubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced…

Sounds the same

Read fèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 费to cost; to spend; fee
• 肺lung
• 沸to boil
• 吠to bark
• 狒hamadryad baboon
• 砩dam up water with rocks
• 剕amputation of limbs as corporal punishment; variant of 腓, calf
• 痱prickly heat
• 镄fermium (chemistry)
• 怫anger
• 俷(literary) to violate (a moral code)
• 厞to hide; hideout