荒废

Traditional form:

荒廢

Pinyin (reading):

huāngfèi

Definitions:

• to abandon (cultivated fields)
• no longer cultivated
• to lie waste
• wasted
• to neglect (one's work or study)

Characters:

• 荒 - wasteland, desert; uncultivated
• 废 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate

Traditional characters:

• 荒 - wasteland, desert; uncultivated
• 廢 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate