半途而废 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 半途而廢 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. bàntúérfèi ㄅㄢˋ ㄊㄨˊ ㄦˊ ㄈㄟˋ to give up halfway (idiom) leave sth unfinished Character by character 半(bàn)half 途(tú)way 而(ér)and 废(fèi)abolish A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT