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费

fèi

HSK 4 Character Traditional 費

What 费 means

1. to cost
2. to spend
3. fee
4. wasteful
5. expenses

Other readings

费 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Fèisurname Fei

Example sentences

• 免费的。
  It's for free.
• 不收小费。
  Bù shōu xiǎofèi.
  We don't accept tips.
• 它是免费的。
  It's free.
• 他计算费用。
  He calculated the expenses.
• 这是免费的。
  It's on the house.
• 别浪费时间。
  Don't waste your time.

Words starting with 费

• 费用fèi yòngcost; expenditure; expense
• 费劲fèi jìnto require effort; strenuous
• 费力fèi lìto expend a great deal of effort
• 费心fèi xīnto take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth)
• 费时fèi shíto take time; time-consuming
• 费解fèi jiěto be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible
• 费城Fèi chéngPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania; abbr. for 费拉德尔菲亚
• 费事fèi shìtroublesome; to take a lot of trouble to do sth
• 费孝通Fèi Xiào tōngFei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist
• 费神fèi shénto spend effort; to take trouble; May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request)
• 费尽心机fèi jìn xīn jīto rack one's brains for schemes (idiom); to beat one's brains out
• 费率fèi lǜrate; tariff
• 费德勒Fèi dé lèRoger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
• 费拉fèi lā(loanword) fellah
• 费利克斯Fèi lì kè sīFelix
• 费马Fèi mǎPierre de Fermat (1601–1665), French mathematician
• 费尔马Fèi ěr mǎPierre de Fermat (1601–1665), French mathematician
• 费马大定理Fèi mǎ dà dìng lǐ(math) Fermat's Last Theorem
• 费话fèi huàto talk at length; to waste one's breath; variant of 废话
• 费加罗报Fèi jiā luó bàoLe Figaro
• 费尔干纳Fèi ěr gàn nàthe Ferghana Valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
• 费边社Fèi biān shèFabian Society
• 费力不讨好fèi lì bù tǎo hǎoarduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding
• 费米子fèi mǐ zǐ(physics) fermion

Words containing 费

• 免费miǎn fèifree (of charge)
• 浪费làng fèito waste; to squander
• 消费xiāo fèito consume (goods and services, resources etc)
• 经费jīng fèifunds; expenditure
• 耗费hào fèito waste; to spend; to consume
• 消费者xiāo fèi zhěconsumer
• 收费shōu fèito charge a fee
• 学费xué fèituition fee; tuition
• 花费huā fèiexpense; cost; to spend (time or money)
• 生活费shēng huó fèicost of living; living expenses; alimony
• 自费zì fèiat one's own expense; self-funded
• 小费xiǎo fèitip; gratuity
• 付费fù fèito pay; to cover the costs
• 稿费gǎo fèiauthor's remuneration
• 车费chē fèipassenger fare
• 手续费shǒu xù fèiservice charge; processing fee; commission
• 交费jiāo fèito pay a fee
• 路费lù fèitravel expenses; money for a voyage; toll
• 资费zī fèi(postal, telecom etc) service charge
• 消费品xiāo fèi pǐnconsumer goods
• 运费yùn fèifreight fee
• 收费站shōu fèi zhàntollbooth
• 邮费yóu fèipostage
• 公费gōng fèiat public expense

Characters built on 弗

These share the phonetic component 弗 (fú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 沸fèito boil
• 狒fèihamadryad baboon
• 砩fèidam up water with rocks
• 怫fèianger

Characters that look like 费

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should
• 资zīresources; capital; to provide
• 肾shènkidney
• 晋jìnto move forward; to promote; to advance
• 贤xiánworthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
• 垩èto whitewash; to plaster

Sounds the same

Read fèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 废to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 肺lung
• 沸to boil
• 吠to bark
• 狒hamadryad baboon
• 砩dam up water with rocks
• 剕amputation of limbs as corporal punishment; variant of 腓, calf
• 痱prickly heat
• 镄fermium (chemistry)
• 怫anger
• 俷(literary) to violate (a moral code)
• 厞to hide; hideout