Chinese symbol for “wasted”
荒废
huāng fèi
Traditional: 荒廢
to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wasted is 荒废 (huāng fèi), defined as: to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 荒废.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒谬 (荒謬) | huāng miù | absurd; ridiculous |
| 饥荒 (饑荒) | jī huāng | crop failure; famine |
| 荒唐 | huāng táng | beyond belief; preposterous |
| 荒野 | huāng yě | wilderness |
| 荒诞 (荒誕) | huāng dàn | beyond belief; incredible |
| 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) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wasted”.
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.