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Kanji Detail for 廃 - "abolish, abandon, decline"

廃

  • Meaning

    廃 means "abolish, abandon, decline."

    1. Abolish - To put an end to; to discontinue.

    2. Abandon - To give up; to forsake.

    3. Decline - To deteriorate; to fall into disuse.

    4. Ruin - A state of destruction or decay.

  • Words using 廃

    • 廃棄 はいき Listen disposal; abandonment; scrapping
    • 廃止 はいし Listen abolition; discontinuance; discontinuation
    • 廃案 はいあん Listen rejected bill (project)
    • 撤廃 てっぱい Listen annulment; abolition; repeal
    • 全廃 ぜんぱい Listen total abolition; full phase-out; total repeal
    • 廃絶 はいぜつ Listen abolition; elimination; extinction
    • 荒廃 こうはい Listen ruin; destruction; devastation
    • 廃業 はいぎょう Listen discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice)

  • Four-character idioms with 廃

    • 廃仏毀釈 はいぶつきしゃく Listen abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)

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    • Verified meaning: abolish, abandon, decline
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    abolish; obsolete; cessation; discarding; abandon

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    abrogate, terminate, discard

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Japanese variant of 廢|废[fei4]

  • Onyomi

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    hai(ハイ) ハイ

  • Kunyomi

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    suta.reru(すた-れる) すた-れる

    suta.ru(すた-る) すた-る

  • Strokes

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    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    广 (madare)

  • Related Keywords

    abolish abandon decline ruin obsolete disuse annul antiquated decay decommission defunct deteriorate discard discontinue eliminate forsake nullify outdated revoke cease stop

Sentences including 廃

  • The government should do away with those old regulations.

  • The town fell into ruin.

  • The university decided to do away with this kind of examination.

  • The war wasted the country.

  • Such a custom should be done away with.

  • The government should do away with those old regulations.

  • The country was wasted by war.

  • We should do away with these old rules.

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