廃

Meaning

廃 centers on ending something by letting it go: abolishing a practice, discarding an object, or abandoning a place. The idea of obsolescence and cessation follows naturally from that same sense of deliberate removal.

• 廃止はいし
  N1

  abolition; discontinuance; discontinuation; repeal; annulment

• 廃棄はいき
  N1

  disposal; abandonment; scrapping; discarding; abolition

• 廃墟はいきょ

  ruins (of a building, town, etc.); remains

• 撤廃てっぱい

  annulment; abolition; repeal; rescission

• 荒廃こうはい
  N1

  ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

• 廃人はいじん

  cripple; disabled person; invalid

• 廃車はいしゃ

  decommissioned vehicle; out of service vehicle; end of life vehicle

• 廃業はいぎょう

  discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring

• 廃るすたる

  to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion; to go out of style

• 廃盤はいばん

  out-of-print record; out-of-print CD

• 退廃たいはい
  N1

  (moral) decay; (social) decline; decadence; corruption; degeneration; deterioration

• 廃絶はいぜつ
  N1

  abolition; elimination

• 産廃さんぱい

  industrial waste

• 廃校はいこう

  closing of a school; closed school

• 廃刊はいかん

  ceasing to publish; discontinuance of publication

• 廃案はいあん

  rejected bill (project)

• 老廃ろうはい

  deterioration (due to age); wearing out; expiration

• 全廃ぜんぱい

  total abolition; full phase-out; total repeal

• 廃品はいひん

  waste; garbage

• 廃屋はいおく

  dilapidated house; deserted house

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