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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

荒废

huāngfèi

to abandon (cultivated fields)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to abandon (cultivated fields)

02

no longer cultivated

03

to lie waste

04

wasted

05

to neglect (one's work or study)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 荒废 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 荒废 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

在中国的旁边,瑞士像一个荒废的乡村似的。zài zhōng guó de páng biān, ruì shì xiàng yí gè huāng fèi de xiāng cūn shì de。

Next to China, Switzerland is an abandoned village.

我荒废的今日,正是昨日殒身之人祈求的明日。wǒ huāng fèi de jīn rì, zhèng shì zuó rì yǔn shēn zhī rén qí qiú de míng rì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

教练经常提醒队员,在精进球技的同时,也不能荒废学业。jiào liàn jīng cháng tí xǐng duì yuán, zài jīng jìn qiú jì de tóng shí, yě bù néng huāng fèi xué yè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 荒废.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 荒废.

Directly before

  • 一个荒废1
  • 我荒废1
  • 不能荒废1

Directly after

  • 荒废的2
  • 荒废过去1
  • 荒废学业1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 荒废

What does 荒废 mean in Chinese?

荒废 (huāngfèi) means to abandon (cultivated fields).

How do you pronounce 荒废?

荒废 is pronounced huāngfèi.

Is 荒废 an HSK word?

荒废 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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