費
fèibì HSK3

expenses

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Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.

Components

弗
弗 Sound component
貝
貝 Meaning component

In ancient China shells were used as currency.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartphj+jHpʰ[u]t-s squander

說文解字

《說文》：“費，散財用也。从貝，弗聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)