Chinese symbol for “discard”
废弃
fèi qì
Traditional: 廢棄
to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for discard is 废弃 (fèi qì), defined as: to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “discard”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丢弃 (丟棄) | diū qì | to discard; to abandon |
| 汰 | tài | to discard; to eliminate |
| 废置 (廢置) | fèi zhì | to discard; to shelve as useless |
| 抛却 (拋卻) | pāo què | to discard |
| 摒 | bìng | to discard; to get rid of |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 废弃.
| 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 |
| 放弃 (放棄) | fàng qì | to renounce; to abandon; to give up |
| 抛弃 (拋棄) | pāo qì | to abandon; to discard |
| 丢弃 (丟棄) | diū qì | to discard; to abandon |
See also: Japanese symbol for “discard”.
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.