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废品

fèipǐn

waste product; discarded item

An elderly person pulls a cart of old papers and bottles
Memory picture

Characters in this word

废 fèi

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

品 pǐn

Strokes
9
Radical
口 — mouth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 工厂把可回收废品单独存放,以便后续分类处理。 Gōngchǎng bǎ kě huíshōu fèipǐn dāndú cúnfàng, yǐbiàn hòuxù fēnlèi chǔlǐ. The factory stores recyclable waste separately so it can be sorted and processed later.
  • 爷爷把家里的旧报纸和瓶子当废品卖了。 Yéye bǎ jiā lǐ de jiù bàozhǐ hé píngzi dàng fèipǐn mài le. Grandpa sold the old newspapers and bottles from home as scrap.
  • 这批产品有质量问题,只能当废品处理。 Zhè pī chǎnpǐn yǒu zhìliàng wèntí, zhǐ néng dàng fèipǐn chǔlǐ. This batch of products has quality problems and can only be treated as rejects.

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