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費

简 费 · 繁 費
Mandarin · pinyin fèi#

Meanings · fèi

  1. to cost
  2. to spend
  3. fee
  4. wasteful
  5. expenses
Mandarin · pinyin Fèi#

Meanings · Fèi

  1. surname Fei
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費
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费
fèi · expenses, expenditures, fee
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4 · fei4

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bei3 · fai3

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character

  1. to cost; to spend; to expend
  2. to consume; to use; to exhaust
  3. to lavish; to squander; to waste; to lose
  4. fee; bill; charge; dues; toll
  5. loquacious; garrulous; verbose; (of words) superfluous
  6. (Jilu, Lanyin, Jianghuai and Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu) naughty; mischievous
  7. (historical) placename in the southwest of modern-day Yutai County, Shandong
  8. a surname

character

  1. (historical) placename in modern-day Fei County, Shandong
  2. a surname

character

  1. (historical) alternative form of 鄪 /𰻳 (bì, name of an ancient county in the State of Lu)
  2. a surname

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 拂 (fú, “to transgress; to violate; to infringe”)

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