Chinese symbol for “nullify”

作废

zuò fèi

Traditional: 作廢

to become invalid; to cancel; to delete; to nullify

The closest CC-CEDICT match for nullify is 作废 (zuò fèi), defined as: to become invalid; to cancel; to delete; to nullify.

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Characters and stroke order

作 zuò

to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

废 fèi

to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate

radical 53 ⼴ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

廢 fèi

Related words

Other words that share a character with 作废.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate
作为 (作為)	zuò wéi	one's conduct; deed
合作	hé zuò	to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
作品	zuò pǐn	work (of art); opus
作用	zuò yòng	to act on; to affect; action; function; activity
制作 (製作)	zhì zuò	to make; to manufacture
废除 (廢除)	fèi chú	to abolish; to abrogate
废物 (廢物)	fèi wù	rubbish; waste material; useless person

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.