費事

See also: 费事

Chinese[edit]

	to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (費事)	費	事
simp. (费事)	费	事
alternative forms	廢事／废事 Cantonese senses

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fèishì
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fèishìh
  - Wade–Giles: fei⁴-shih⁴
  - Yale: fèi-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyshyh
  - Palladius: фэйши (fɛjši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fèishìr
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fèishìhr
  - Wade–Giles: fei⁴-shih⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: fèi-shìr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyshell
  - Palladius: фэйшир (fɛjšir)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fai³ si⁶
  - Yale: fai sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fai³ si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: fei³ xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³ siː²²/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hui³ se⁷ / hui³ su⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hùi sṳ̄ / hùi sū
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sɯ¹¹/, /hui²¹³⁻⁵⁵ su¹¹/

Note: hui3 se7 - Chaozhou.

費事

to take a lot of trouble to do something
(Cantonese) to not feel like doing something; to not bother to do something
費事睬你！／费事睬你！ [Cantonese] ― fai³ si⁶ coi² nei⁵! [Jyutping] ― I couldn't care less about you!
(Cantonese) to avoid
嗱，還返筆錢畀你，費事爭你咁耐啦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
嗱，还返笔钱畀你，费事争你咁耐啦。 [Cantonese, simp.]
naa⁴, waan⁴ faan¹ bat¹ cin⁴ bei² nei⁵, fai³ si⁶ caang¹ nei⁵ gam³ noi⁶ laa¹. [Jyutping]
Here, I'm returning you the money, so that I don't owe you any longer.

費事

time-consuming; troublesome; involving a hassle
這麼做太費事，不如換個方法。 [MSC, trad.]
这么做太费事，不如换个方法。 [MSC, simp.]
Zhème zuò tài fèishì, bùrú huàn ge fāngfǎ. [Pinyin]
Doing it this way is too troublesome - it would be better to try another way.