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白费
bái​fèi

waste

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
白费 (白費) bái​fèi
waste verb
to waste (one's energy, etc.)

他的努力全都白费了。

tā de nǔ​lì quán dōu bái​fèi le.

All his efforts were in vain.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
5.57 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
2.47 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)