U+5E9F "废" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

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.