fèi

to cost; to spend; fee

HSK 4 #486

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 486th character
Radical ⾙ (154.5)
Strokes 9
Index # 1726
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

费 fèi
  1. 1. to cost
  2. 2. to spend
  3. 3. fee
  4. 4. expenses
  5. 5. wasteful
  6. 6. surname Fei

Stroke order

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Words containing 费

Word Meaning
air freight (cost of air transport)
signing bonus; sign-on bonus
variant of mí fèi
business expense; business cost
maintenance costs
subscription (rate)
time charge
medical fees
legal fees; costs (of a lawsuit)
to think oneself to exhaustion (idiom)
hard work with no thanks or reward
Le Figaro
erhua variant of fèi jìn
to argue needlessly; to waste time explaining
to spend (much) effort; to go through (a lot of) trouble
to argue needlessly; to waste time explaining
Theodor of Fyodor (name)
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; abbr. to fèi chéng
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher
the Ferghana valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
the Ferghana Valley in modern Uzbekistan
Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician