廢死

Chinese

		abolish; crippled	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (廢死)		廢	死
simp. (废死)		废	死

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèisǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄙˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèisǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄙˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèisǐh
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴-ssŭ³
    • Yale: fèi-sž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feysyy
    • Palladius: фэйсы (fɛjsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: pjojH sijX

Rime
Character	廢	死
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	廢 (28)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	方肺切	息姊切
Baxter	pjojH	sijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉɐiH/	/sˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɐiH/	/sᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/piuɐiH/	/siɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puajH/	/sjiX/
Li Rong	/piuɐiH/	/sjiX/
Wang Li	/pĭwɐiH/	/siX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯wɐiH/	/siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèi	sǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai3	si2

Verb

廢死

1. Short for 廢除死刑／废除死刑 (fèichú sǐxíng, “to abolish death penalty; to abolish capital punishment”).

   等你的家人被殺了，你還能夠支持廢死嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   等你的家人被杀了，你还能够支持废死吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Děng nǐ de jiārén bèi shā le, nǐ hái nénggòu zhīchí fèisǐ ma? [Pinyin]

   If your family member is murdered, can you still support the abolition of the death penalty?

2. (archaic) to die abandoned; to be dismissed all one's life; to die without opportunity to demonstrate one's merit

   • 荀卿守正，大論是弘；逃讒於楚，廢死蘭陵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     荀卿守正，大论是弘；逃谗于楚，废死兰陵。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 813, Han Yu, "On Advancing Scholarship" (《進學解》)

     Xúnqīng shǒuzhèng, dàlùn shìhóng; táochán yúChǔ, fèisǐ Lánlíng. [Pinyin]

     Master Xunzi defended righteousness, and expounded forcefully thereupon. Fearing libellous tongues he fled to Chu, and died a petty mayor of Lanling.