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浪費

浪費

See also: 浪费

Chinese

 
wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated
 
to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; (surname)
trad. (浪費)
simp. (浪费)

Verb

浪費

  1. to waste; to squander
    浪費時間 / 浪费时间   làngfèi shíjiān   to waste time
    浪費生命 / 浪费生命   làngfèi shēngmìng   to waste one's life

Adjective

浪費

  1. wasteful

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 浪費
Mandarin Beijing 浪費糟蹋、糟踐
Taiwan 浪費糟蹋
Harbin 浪費糟蹋、糟盡
Wuhan 浪費糟蹋、拋撒
Cantonese Guangzhou 、嘥撻
Hong Kong
Yangjiang 、嘥撻
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 打爽
Liudui (S. Sixian) 打爽、浪核
Hsinchu (Hailu) 打爽
Dongshi (Dabu) 打爽
Zhuolan (Raoping) 打爽
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 打爽
Min Bei Jian'ou 糟蹋
Min Dong Fuzhou 、作蹋
Min Nan Quanzhou 拍損
Xiamen 拍損
Zhangzhou 拍損
Taipei 拍損
Kaohsiung 拍損
Wu Wenzhou 浪費

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ろう
Grade: S

Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

浪費 (hiragana ろうひ, romaji rōhi)

  1. waste, extravagance

Verb

浪費する (hiragana ろうひする, romaji rōhi suru)

  1. to waste, to squander

Conjugation