废寝忘食
fèiqǐnwàngshí
to neglect sleep and food; to be completely absorbed
Characters in this word
寝 qǐn
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
食 shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 食 — food
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他为了准备考试，每天废寝忘食地复习。 Tā wèile zhǔnbèi kǎoshì, měi tiān fèiqǐnwàngshí de fùxí. To prepare for the exam, he reviews every day, forgetting sleep and food.
- 画家废寝忘食地画了三天，终于完成了这幅画。 Huàjiā fèiqǐnwàngshí de huà le sān tiān, zhōngyú wánchéng le zhè fú huà. The painter painted for three days, forgetting sleep and food, and finally finished this picture.
- 孩子玩新游戏玩得废寝忘食，妈妈很担心。 Háizi wán xīn yóuxì wán de fèiqǐnwàngshí, māma hěn dānxīn. The child is so absorbed in the new game that he forgets sleep and food, and mum is worried.
Related words
- 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi to give up halfway
- 报废 bàofèi to scrap; to be discarded as unusable
- 废 fèi to abolish; useless; wasted
- 废除 fèichú to abolish; to repeal
- 废话 fèihuà nonsense; empty talk; to talk nonsense
- 废品 fèipǐn waste product; discarded item
- 废弃 fèiqì to abandon; to discard
- 废物 fèiwù waste; useless thing or person
- 废墟 fèixū ruins
- 颓废 tuífèi decadent; dispirited; dejected
- 作废 zuòfèi to invalidate; to become void
- 寝室 qǐnshì dormitory; bedroom