U+5E9F "废" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
废
U+5E9F "废" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to abolish", "to discard", "waste", or "useless". It is composed of the radical "广" (guǎng), signifying a building or shelter, and the phonetic component "发" (fā), though its primary modern usage is as a logograph in written Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese, it appears in common words like "废物" (waste, good-for-nothing) and "废除" (to abolish), while in Japanese it is used as a kanji in terms such as "廃止" (haishi, abolition). The character carries a distinctly negative connotation, often associated with obsolescence, ruin, or rejection in both languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E9F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 废 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 废 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e9f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273D27 |
| kCangjie | IIVE |
| kCantonese | fai3 |
| kDefinition | abrogate, terminate, discard |
| kEACC | 273D27 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0024 |
| kGB0 | 2347 |
| kHanYu | 20880.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fèi(111) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20880.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0345.081 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-374F |
| kTGH | 2013:1220 |
| kKangXi | 0345.081 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1683 |
| kMandarin | fèi |
| kPhonetic | 346* |
| kRSUnicode | 53.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 200.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 095.180:fèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "廢" U+5EE2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0316.090:fèi |