費

See also: 费

Translingual

Han character

費 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中弓月山金 (LNBUC), four-corner 5580₆, composition ⿱弗貝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36717
• Dae Jaweon: page 1670, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3635, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8CBB

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Chinese

trad.		費
simp.		费
alternative forms		廢／废 “naughty”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鄪	*prɯds
費	*prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds
砩	*pads
沸	*pɯds
疿	*pɯds
茀	*pɯds, *pʰɯd
髴	*pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd
昲	*pʰɯds
靅	*pʰɯds
狒	*buds
怫	*bɯds, *bɯd
胇	*brɯd
艴	*bɯːd, *pʰɯd
弗	*pɯd
紼	*pɯd
柫	*pɯd
笰	*pɯd
拂	*pʰɯd
刜	*pʰɯd, *bɯd
彿	*pʰɯd
佛	*bɯd
坲	*bɯd
咈	*bɯd
炥	*bɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds) : phonetic 弗 (OC *pɯd) + semantic 貝 (“cowry”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 費

1. to cost; to spend; to expend
2. to consume; to use; to exhaust
3. to lavish; to squander; to waste; to lose
4. fee; bill; charge; dues
5. loquacious; garrulous; verbose; (of words) superfluous
6. (Jilu Mandarin, Lanyin Mandarin, Jianghuai Mandarin, Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu) naughty; mischievous
7. (historical) placename in the southwest of modern-day Yutai County, Shandong
8. a surname

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 費

1. (historical) placename in modern-day Fei County, Shandong
2. a surname

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³
• Eastern Min (BUC): bé

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/

Note: Often mispronounced fèi.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bei³
    • Yale: bei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bé
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛi²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: pijH

Rime
Character	費
Reading #	1/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	兵媚切
Baxter	pijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiH/
Shao Rongfen	/piɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiH/
Li Rong	/pjiH/
Wang Li	/piH/
Bernard Karlgren	/piH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	費
Reading #	1/3
No.	3299
Phonetic component	弗
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	祕
Old Chinese	/*prɯds/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 費

1. (historical) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 鄪／𰻳 (bì, “name of an ancient county in the State of Lu”).
2. a surname

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 費

1. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 拂 (fú, “to transgress; to violate; to infringe”).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

費

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• On: ふつ (futsu)
• Kun: ついやす (tsuiyasu, 費やす, Jōyō); ついえる (tsuieru, 費える, Jōyō)

Derived terms

• 費(つい)やす (tsuiyasu)

Suffix

費(ひ) • (-hi) 

1. cost, fee

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Korean

Hanja

費 • (bi) (hangeul 비)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 費 (phí, phía)

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