費
fèibì HSK3

expenses

费 費 fèi frequency
fee noun
(bound form) fee; expenses; charge; dues

我付不起注册费。

wǒ fù bù qǐ zhù​cè fèi.

I can’t afford the registration fee.

to spend verb
to spend or expend money or wealth

摄影是不是很费钱呢？

shè​yǐng shì​bu​shì hěn fèi qián ne?

Is photography very expensive?

to exert verb
to use or consume effort, time, or energy

做饭太费时间了。

zuò fàn tài fèi shí​jiān le.

Cooking takes too much time.

wasteful
wasteful; consuming too much; in excess of what is needed
Fei
a Chinese surname
verbose
wordy; verbose; taking a lot of talking or explaining
费 費 bì
Bi
(bound form) ancient place name, specifically a district in the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
486th most common 436.0 per million
Movie subtitles
548th most common 256.5 per million appears in 68% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
34.0 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
72.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
费
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8CBB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)