作废 (作廢)
zuò fèi
Pinyin

Definition

作废 (作廢)
 - 
zuò fèi
  1. to become invalid
  2. to cancel
  3. to delete
  4. to nullify

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

作
zuō
  1. 1 worker
  2. 2 workshop
  3. 3 (slang) troublesome
  4. 4 high-maintenance (person)
作品
zuò pǐn
  1. 1 work (of art)
  2. 2 opus
  3. 3 classifier: 部 bù
  4. 4 classifier: 篇 piān
作业
zuò yè
  1. 1 school assignment
  2. 2 homework
  3. 3 work
  4. 4 task
  5. 5 operation
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 to operate
作为
zuò wéi
  1. 1 one's conduct
  2. 2 deed
  3. 3 activity
  4. 4 accomplishment
  5. 5 achievement
  6. 6 to act as
  7. 7 as (in the capacity of)
  8. 8 qua
  9. 9 to view as
  10. 10 to look upon (sth as)
  11. 11 to take sth to be
作用
zuò yòng
  1. 1 to act on
  2. 2 to affect
  3. 3 action
  4. 4 function
  5. 5 activity
  6. 6 impact
  7. 7 result
  8. 8 effect
  9. 9 purpose
  10. 10 intent
  11. 11 to play a role
  12. 12 corresponds to English -ity, -ism, -ization
  13. 13 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

以身作则
yǐ shēn zuò zé
  1. 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
作威作福
zuò wēi zuò fú
  1. 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
作茧自缚
zuò jiǎn zì fù
  1. 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
  2. 2 hoist by his own petard
作鸟兽散
zuò niǎo shòu sàn
  1. 1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to head off in various directions
  3. 3 to flee helter-skelter
俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard

Sample Sentences

好了，李姐。这些都是作废的文件。
hǎo le ，Lǐ jiě 。zhèxiē dōu shì zuòfèi de wénjiàn 。
Okay, Ms. Li. These are all null and void documents.
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这里有一些文件，你整理一下。看看哪些是有用的，哪些写了“作废”。
zhèlǐ yǒuyīxiē wénjiàn ，nǐ zhěnglǐ yīxià 。kàn kan nǎxiē shì yǒuyòngde ，nǎxiē xiě le “zuòfèi ”。
Here are some documents. Please put them in order. Look to see which of them are useful and which ones have ”null and void“ written on them.
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要不你们改改设计吧。他们采购进来的货也不可能作废啊。
yàobu nǐmen gǎigai shèjì ba 。tāmen cǎigòu jìnlai de huò yě bù kěnéng zuòfèi a 。
Why don't we change the designs? The items they bought can't just go to waste.
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