Chinese symbol for “depose”
废掉
fèi diào
Traditional: 廢掉
to depose (a king)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for depose is 废掉 (fèi diào), defined as: to depose (a king).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “depose”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 废黜 (廢黜) | fèi chù | to depose (a king) |
| 废 (廢) | fèi | to abolish; to abandon |
| 革职 (革職) | gé zhí | to sack; to remove from a position |
| 撤掉 | chè diào | to cut; to throw out |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 废掉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 废除 (廢除) | fèi chú | to abolish; to abrogate |
| 废物 (廢物) | fèi wù | rubbish; waste material; useless person |
| 废弃 (廢棄) | fèi qì | to discard; to abandon (old ways) |
| 废止 (廢止) | fèi zhǐ | to repeal (a law); to put an end to |
| 废话 (廢話) | fèi huà | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) |
| 废墟 (廢墟) | fèi xū | ruins |
| 卖掉 (賣掉) | mài diào | to sell off |
| 丢掉 (丟掉) | diū diào | to lose; to throw away |
See also: Japanese symbol for “depose”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.