廢
fèi HSK7

discard, abandon

废 (廢) fèi
discard noun
to abandon, discard, or treat as waste material

这块布料被裁坏了，现在已经废了。

zhè kuài bù​liào bèi cái huài le, xiàn​zài yǐ​jīng fèi le.

This piece of fabric was cut incorrectly and is now ruined.

abolish verb
to abolish, abrogate, or depose from a position

既然这条规定已经不合时宜，那就废了吧。

jì​rán zhèi tiáo guī​dìng yǐ​jīng bù​hé​shí​yí, nà jiù fèi le ba.

Since this regulation is no longer appropriate, it should be abolished.

crippled verb
crippled, disabled, or rendered useless

他的双腿在事故中受伤废了。

tā de shuāng tuǐ zài shì​gù zhōng shòu​shāng fèi le.

His legs were disabled in the accident.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,376th most common 86.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,132nd most common 80.2 per million appears in 35% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.0 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
20.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
废
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+5EE2

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)