靡費

Chinese

		extravagant; go with fashion; not extravagant; go with fashion; not; wasted	to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname
trad. (靡費)		靡	費
simp. (靡费)		靡	费
alternative forms		糜費／糜费

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mífèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ ㄈㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴ fai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mífèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ ㄈㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mífèi
    • Wade–Giles: mi²-fei⁴
    • Yale: mí-fèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mifey
    • Palladius: мифэй (mifɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵ feɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁴ fai³
    • Yale: mèih fai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴ fai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴ fei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹ fɐi̯³³/

Verb

靡費

1. (formal) to waste; to squander; to spend extravagantly

Synonyms

• 加了 (Hokkien, chiefly money)
• 干了 (Hokkien, chiefly money)
• 抖落 (dǒuluò)
• 折騰／折腾 (zhēteng) (colloquial)
• 拋荒／抛荒 (pāohuāng)
• 揮霍／挥霍 (huīhuò)
• 曠廢／旷废 (kuàngfèi)
• 枉費／枉费 (wǎngfèi)
• 浪費／浪费 (làngfèi)
• 無彩／无彩 (Hokkien)
• 白了 (Hokkien)
• 白白了 (Hokkien)
• 白費／白费 (báifèi)
• 空費／空费 (kōngfèi)
• 糟蹋 (zāotà)
• 耽誤／耽误 (chiefly time)
• 荒廢／荒废 (huāngfèi)
• 虛耗／虚耗 (xūhào)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		靡
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		浪費, 靡費
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	糟蹋, 糟踐
	Taiwan	浪費, 糟蹋
	Harbin	糟踐
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	糟蹋, 糟踐
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	糟蹋
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	糟蹋, 拋撒
	Wuhan	糟蹋, 拋撒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	作蹋
	Hefei	糟蹋
Mandarin	Singapore	浪費
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嘥, 嘥撻
	Hong Kong	嘥
	Taishan	嘥
	Kaiping (Chikan)	嘥
	Dongguan	嘥
	Yangjiang	嘥
	Singapore (Guangfu)	嘥
Gan	Nanchang	糟蹋
Hakka	Meixian	浪撇
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打爽
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打爽, 浪核
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打爽
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打爽
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打爽
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	打爽
Jin	Taiyuan	糟蹋
Northern Min	Jian'ou	糟蹋
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	敗, 作蹋
Southern Min	Xiamen	拍損, 仄挩
	Quanzhou	拍損, 仄挩
	Zhangzhou	拍損
	Tainan	拍損, 仄挩
	Penang (Hokkien)	損
	Singapore (Hokkien)	拍損, 了
	Manila (Hokkien)	仄挩, 了
	Chaozhou	噠浪
	Jieyang	噠浪
	Singapore (Teochew)	拍損
Wu	Suzhou	糟蹋
	Wenzhou	糟, 殘嘈
Xiang	Changsha	糟蹋
	Shuangfeng	糟蹋