HSK 6 · Places

废墟 fèixū “ruins” in Chinese

Traditional 廢墟

What 废墟 means

  1. ruins

How to say 废墟

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale废fèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale墟xū1st tone, high and level

废墟 in a sentence

  1. 城堡如今已经成了废墟。

    Chéngbǎo rújīn yǐjīng chéng le fèixū.

    The castle is now in ruins.

    Sentence #12267890 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这些废墟年代久远。

    Zhèxiē fèixū niándài jiǔyuǎn.

    These ruins are very old.

    Sentence #9475761 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 暴风雨过后，他们的房子成了废墟。

    Bàofēngyǔ guòhòu, tāmen de fángzi chéng le fèixū.

    After the storm, their house was in ruins.

    Sentence #816508 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 废墟 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 废 (fèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
废fèito abolish
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 发to issue · fāSound part
The character 墟 (xū) with each of its parts in a different colour
墟xūruins
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 虚false · xūSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 虚 (xū) hints at the sound. Compare it with xū.

How to write 废墟

废 8 strokes · 墟 14 strokes

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废墟 (fèixū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 废墟 (fèixū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 废墟

Words with 废

废话fèihuà · nonsense作废zuòfèi · to become invalid废除fèichú · to abolish废寝忘食fèiqǐnwàngshí · so absorbed one forgets to eat and sleep半途而废bàntú'érfèi · to give up halfway

More words: Places & Geography

赤道chìdào · the equator地势dìshì · terrain方位fāngwèi · position方圆fāngyuán · surrounding area坟墓fénmù · grave港湾gǎngwān · harbour跟前gēnqián · in front of宫殿gōngdiàn · palace

FAQs

废墟 (fèixū) means “ruins”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fèixū: fèi with a 4th tone, then xū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 废墟 is written 廢墟. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feixu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 废墟 from the suggestions. Typing feixu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
废墟 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.