报废 (bàofèi) — to scrap; to be discarded as unusable

Characters in this word

Strokes: 8
Radical: 广 — broad, vast, wide
Made of: 广 broad, vast, wide 发 to issue, to dispatch, to send out
How it's built: Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

那批设备因长期超负荷运转，提前几年就报废了。 Nà pī shèbèi yīn chángqī chāofùhè yùnzhuǎn, tíqián jǐ nián jiù bàofèi le. That batch of equipment was overloaded for a long time and was scrapped several years early.
这辆车开了二十年，已经到了报废的年龄。 Zhè liàng chē kāi le èrshí nián, yǐjīng dào le bàofèi de niánlíng. This car has been driven for twenty years and has reached the age to be scrapped.
手机掉进水里以后彻底报废了，里面的照片也没了。 Shǒujī diào jìn shuǐ lǐ yǐhòu chèdǐ bàofèi le, lǐmiàn de zhàopiàn yě méi le. After the phone fell into the water it was completely ruined, and the photos on it were gone too.