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HSK
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
useless person; good-for-nothing
rubbish; waste material / useless person
HSK 7-9
to scrap; to dispose of (sth worn-out or damaged)
HSK 7-9
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *廢* | 廢* | *廢
to abolish / to abandon / to abrogate / to discard / to depose / to oust / crippled / abandoned / waste
HSK 7-9
production rejects / seconds / scrap / discarded material
HSK 7-9
ruins
HSK 7-9
three types of waste product, namely: waste water 廢水|废水, exhaust gas 廢氣|废气, industrial slag 廢渣|废渣
waste water / drain water / effluent
to abolish / to abrogate / to repeal
HSK 7-9
to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
HSK 7-9
waste paper
waste products / refuse / garbage / good-for-nothing (derog.)
(Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing / loser
not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case
to go to pot (idiom)
decadent / dispirited / depressed / dejected
HSK 7-9
scrap iron
(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
HSK 7-9
exhaust gas / industrial waste gas
nuclear waste
planned obsolescence
all neglected tasks are being undertaken (idiom) / work is now underway
a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling
ash-bin / litter-bin
waste liquids
planned obsolescence
to discard / to abandon (old ways) / to invalidate
zero waste
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
to repeal (a law) / to put an end to / abolition / annulled
to depose (a king)
to depose (a king)
to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan)
handicapped person / useless person
radioactive waste
many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do
to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others
to talk nonsense / to bullshit
to neglect sleep and food
waste heat
deformity / handicapped
scrap metal / a pile of junk
decadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe)
(Tw) (slang) to pass time idly / to chill / to hang out
to evade (repayment of debts)
salvage station; recycling center
many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do
"abandonment of reunification", abolition of the cross-straits reunification committee
worn out / old-fashioned and dilapidated
to neglect (work) / to waste (one's talents)
(coll.) a good-for-nothing; a loser
to fall into disuse (of laws, customs etc) / to neglect
to waste time
to abandon (cultivated fields) / no longer cultivated / to lie waste / wasted / to neglect (one's work or study)
low-level waste
industrial waste product / slag
to discard / to shelve as useless
scrap metal / steel scrap
garbage collection point / trash dump
(coll.) spineless coward / wimp / a good-for-nothing
depressed / dejected


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