废墟
fèixū
ruins
Characters in this word
墟 xū
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 地震过后，救援人员在废墟中寻找生命迹象。 Dìzhèn guò hòu, jiùyuán rényuán zài fèixū zhōng xúnzhǎo shēngmìng jìxiàng. After the earthquake, rescue workers searched the ruins for signs of life.
- 大火之后，整座老楼只剩下一片废墟。 Dàhuǒ zhīhòu, zhěng zuò lǎo lóu zhǐ shèng xià yí piàn fèixū. After the big fire, only ruins were left of the whole old building.
- 孩子们喜欢在古老的废墟里探险，寻找小石头。 Háizimen xǐhuan zài gǔlǎo de fèixū lǐ tànxiǎn, xúnzhǎo xiǎo shítou. Children love exploring ancient ruins and looking for little stones.
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
- 废物 fèiwù waste; useless thing or person
- 颓废 tuífèi decadent; dispirited; dejected
- 作废 zuòfèi to invalidate; to become void
- 定居 dìngjū to settle down; to take up residence