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白费

bái fèi

2-character word Traditional 白費

What 白费 means

1. to waste (one's energy etc)

The characters in 白费

• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure
• 费fèito cost; to spend; fee

Example sentences

• 你白费力气了。
  You're barking up the wrong tree.
• 他们的努力都白费了。
  Tāmen de nǔlì dōu báifèi le.
  All their efforts were in vain.
• 毫无希望，白费心思。
  Háowú xīwàng, báifèi xīnsi.
  Here goes nothing.
• 我们所有的努力都白费了。
  Wǒmen suǒyǒu de nǔlì dōu báifèi le.
  All our efforts were in vain.
• 我想解决这个问题，可是白费功夫。
  Wǒ xiǎng jiějué zhège wèntí, kěshì báifèi gōngfu.
  I tried in vain to deal with the problem.

Words starting with 白费

• 白费唇舌bái fèi chún shéto whistle down the wind; to waste one's breath (idiom)