廢 (fai3 | fei4) : useless; deserted; give up

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廢

fai3

fei4

[1] [adj] useless; invalid; disabled
[2] [adj] deserted; waste; dispirited
[3] [v] give up; abolish; depose

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Stroke count: 15

Level: 3

Radical: 广 (#53)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

廢 / 废

This word has been viewed 10423 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 11th Jun 2011 11:14

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廢話 fai3 waa6*2 fei4 hua4 = nonsense

作廢 zok3 fai3 zuo4 fei4 = become invalid because of having expired; to cancel, delete, nullify

廢除 fai3 ceoi4 fei4 chu2 = to abolish

廢物 fai3 mat6 fei4 wu4; fei4 wu5 = rubbish; good-for-nothing

廢氣 fai3 hei3 fei4 qi4 = exhaust steam or gas

廢墟 fai3 heoi1 fei4 xu1 = ruins

廢品 fai3 ban2 fei4 pin3 = rejects; scrap

廢柴 fai3 caai4 = dead wood; useless 粵

殘廢 caan4 fai3 can2 fei4 = handicapped, disabled, lameness; cripple

放射性廢物 fong3 se6 sing3 fai3 mat6 fang4 she4 xing4 fei4 wu4 = radioactive waste
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我今日好頹/頹廢啊…
I feel dispirited today.

跟住個報廢及消帳手續去做就啱㗎喇粵
Follow the condemnation and write-off procedures and you can't go wrong.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 廢
Unicode code for this character: U+5ee2 (off-site link)

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