Translingual

Han character

廃 (radical 53 广+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓人心 (INOP), four-corner 0021₅, composition ⿸广発)

1. abrogate, terminate, discard

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 348, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9425
• Dae Jaweon: page 659, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 894, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5EC3

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 廢)

1. abolish, obsolete
2. cessation
3. discarding, abandon

Readings

• Goon: ほ (ho) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: はい (hai)
• Kun: すたれる (sutareru), すたる (sutaru)

Etymology

From Sinitic. Abbreviation of 廃人 ‎(haijin), a back-formation from ネトゲ廃人 ‎(netoge haijin, “slang: online games addict”).

Suffix

廃 ‎(hiragana はい, romaji -hai)

1. (slang) addict

   • もうツイート２０万いってた…まだツイ廃じゃない大丈夫大丈夫（自己暗示）‎

     Mō tsuīto nijū-man itteta… mada Tsuihai ja nai daijōbu daijōbu (jiko anji)

     I've already made 200,000 tweets… I'm not a Twitter addict yet it's OK everything is fine (totally true)

See also

• 厨 (ちゅう) ‎(chū)