Kanji Detail for 廢 - "decline, abandon"

廢

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
廢 means "decline, abandon."
1. Decline - To fall into disuse; to decay; to become obsolete.
2. Abandon - To stop; to discard.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

abrogate; terminate; discard

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

abrogate, terminate, discard

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To stop. Ceasing what was regularly done is called 廢. Such as abolishing imperial examinations. | 廢疾: Like saying disabled. Meaning incomplete bodily functions. Also written as 廢. | Things broken and useless are called 廢. Such as 廢紙 (waste paper), 廢鐵 (scrap iron).
Onyomi

hai(はい)
Kunyomi

fu.su(ふす)

o.chiru(おちる)

suta.reru(すたれる)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

广 (madare)
Related Keywords
decline fall disuse decay become obsolete abandon stop discard