Chinese symbol for “deprecated”
弃用
qì yòng
Traditional: 棄用
to stop using; to abandon; abandoned; deprecated
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deprecated is 弃用 (qì yòng), defined as: to stop using; to abandon; abandoned; deprecated.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 弃用.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 放弃 (放棄) | fàng qì | to renounce; to abandon; to give up |
| 抛弃 (拋棄) | pāo qì | to abandon; to discard |
| 废弃 (廢棄) | fèi qì | to discard; to abandon (old ways) |
| 丢弃 (丟棄) | diū qì | to discard; to abandon |
| 遗弃 (遺棄) | yí qì | to leave; to abandon |
| 舍弃 (捨棄) | shě qì | to give up; to abandon |
| 使用 | shǐ yòng | to use; to employ |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deprecated”.
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.