废物
fèiwù
waste; useless thing or person
Characters in this word
物 wù
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 牛 — ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 实验室要求所有有害废物都贴上标签并登记来源。 Shíyànshì yāoqiú suǒyǒu yǒuhài fèiwù dōu tiē shàng biāoqiān bìng dēngjì láiyuán. The laboratory requires all hazardous waste to be labelled and its source recorded.
- 工厂的废物要分类处理，不能随便倒进河里。 Gōngchǎng de fèiwù yào fēnlèi chǔlǐ, bù néng suíbiàn dào jìn hé lǐ. Factory waste must be sorted and disposed of, and must not be dumped into the river.
- 别总说自己是废物，你其实已经很努力了。 Bié zǒng shuō zìjǐ shì fèiwù, nǐ qíshí yǐjīng hěn nǔlì le. Don't keep saying you are useless, you have actually already tried very hard.
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
- 废寝忘食 fèiqǐnwàngshí to neglect sleep and food; to be completely absorbed
- 废墟 fèixū ruins
- 颓废 tuífèi decadent; dispirited; dejected
- 作废 zuòfèi to invalidate; to become void
- 动物 dòngwù animal