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费 - fèi

expenses, expenditures, fee

expenses, expenditures, fee

How to read 费

Click 费 to hear Mandarin pronunciation. Use the example words before memorizing it in isolation.

Hanzi
Traditional
Pinyinfèi
Englishexpenses, expenditures, fee
Radical hint

Short sentences you can say today

费事 is a common expression. I can make a sentence with 费力. Please read 费劲 one more time.

Common words with this character

troublesome; to take a lot of trouble to do sth
to expend a great deal of effort
to require effort; strenuous
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; abbr. for 費拉德爾菲亞|费拉德尔菲亚[Fei4 la1 de2 er3 fei1 ya4]

Mistake warning

Do not memorize 费 only as an isolated symbol. Read it inside words like 费事 and 费力 first, then come back to the single-character pronunciation.

Original example sentence

I am learning the character 费.