費 (fèi)
fee/expense/to spend/to waste
How 費 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 弓 — bow
- Traditional
- 費
- Simplified
- 费
Components
- 弓 bow
- 貝 shell
Common words using 費
- 免費 miǎnfèi
- free (of charge)
- 浪費 làngfèi
- to waste; to squander
- 消費 xiāofèi
- to consume; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 話費 huàfèi
- call charge
- 付費 fùfèi
- to pay; to cover the costs
- 公費 gōngfèi
- at public expense
- 學費 xuéfèi
- tuition fee; tuition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 小費 xiǎofèi
- tip
- 手續費 shǒuxùfèi
- service charge; processing fee; commission
- 收費 shōufèi
- fee; charge
- 收費站 shōufèizhàn
- tollbooth
- 枉費 wǎngfèi
- to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain
費 in a sentence
台北的生活費很高。
Táiběi de shēnghuófèi hěn gāo.
“The cost of living in Taipei is very high.”
How common is 費?
費 is the 486th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 75.2% of all running text.
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