廃

See also: 廢 and 废

廃 U+5EC3, 廃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EC3 ← 廂 [U+5EC2] CJK Unified Ideographs 廄 → [U+5EC4]

Translingual

Traditional	廢
Shinjitai	廃
Simplified	废

Etymology

Simplified from 廢 (發 → 発)

Han character

廃 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓人心 (INOP), four-corner 0021₅, composition ⿸广発)

1. abrogate, terminate, discard

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 348, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9425
• Dae Jaweon: page 659, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 894, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5EC3

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 廃 – see 廢 (“to collapse; to abandon; to abrogate; to abolish; etc.”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified and variant form of 廢).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Shinjitai	廃
Kyūjitai	廢

See also 廃す

Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 廃

廃

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 廢)

1. abolish, obsolete
2. cessation
3. discarding, abandon

Readings

• Go-on: ほ (ho)
• Kan-on: はい (hai, Jōyō)
• Kun: すたれる (sutareru, 廃れる, Jōyō)、すたる (sutaru, 廃る, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
廃
はい Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
廢 (kyūjitai)

From Sinitic. Shortening of 廃人 (haijin), a back-formation from ネトゲ廃人 (netoge haijin, “slang: online games addict”).

Suffix

廃(はい) • (-hai) 

1. (slang) addict

See also

• 厨(ちゅう) (chū)