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浪费

làng fèi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 浪費

浪费 (làng fèi) means "waste". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 浪费 means

1. to waste
2. to squander

The characters in 浪费

• 浪làngwave; breaker; unrestrained
• 费fèito cost; to spend; fee

Example sentences

• 别浪费时间。
  Don't waste your time.
• 你在浪费水。
  You're wasting water.
• 全都浪费了！
  What a waste!
• 没有时间浪费。
  There is no time to be lost.
• 这是浪费时间。
  It's a waste of time.
• 一刻也不浪费。
  There's not a moment to waste.

Words starting with 浪费

• 浪费金钱làng fèi jīn qiánto squander money; to spend extravagantly

Words containing 浪费

• 铺张浪费pū zhāng làng fèiextravagance and waste (idiom)

Where 浪费 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Shopping & everyday consumption (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read làng fèi correctly.
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