費 (fai3 bei3 | fei4 {bi4}) : fees; dues; charges

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

費

fai3 bei3

fei4 {bi4}

(1) [1] expenses; expenditure; fees; dues; charges [2] [v] waste; use more than needed; wastful; consuming too much [3] [v] consume; use; spend; cost; expend [4] a Chinese family name
(2) a town in the Spring and Autumn period in today's Shantung province

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: (#154)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

費 / 费

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

Output this character as a high resolution image

小費 siu2 fai3 xiao3 fei4 = tip; gratuity

免費 min5 fai3 mian3 fei4 = free

電費 din6 fai3 = electricity bill

水費 seoi2 fai3 = water bill

費事 fai3 si6 = a bother; no use to; it's pointless to 粵

浪費 long6 fai3 lang4 fei4 = to waste

服務費 fuk6 mou6 fai3 = service charge

自費 zi6 fai3 zi4 fei4 = at one's own expense

學費 hok6 fai3 xue2 fei4 = tuition fee

消費 siu1 fai3 xiao1 fei4 = to consume
See all 85 compounds (CantoDict reports 91 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 6 examples containing 費

今年學費貴過舊年粵
This year's tuition fees are more than last year's.
[Lit. This year study fee expensive-surpass last year.]

耗費多年國
To squander away the years.

我想租一間包括水電費的房子。國
I want to rent a house that has utilities included.

快啲畀電話人啦，費時佢牽腸掛肚噃粵
Give her a call. Don't make her worry.

佢成日喺度寫埋晒啲無聊嘢﹐我都費事睇。粵
He writes so much nonsense that I don't even bother reading it.

經濟衰退嘅成因係消費、投資及資產價格之間唔平衡。粵
Inequilibrium in expenditure, investment and the prices of assets and properties would cause an economic downturn.

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1131/]費[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1131/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">費</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 費
Unicode code for this character: U+8CBB (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum