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費

費

See also: 费

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. expenses, expenditures, fee
  2. a Chinese surname

References

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

Chinese

trad. 費
simp. 费

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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 費
Mandarin Beijing /fei⁵¹/
Harbin /fei⁵³/
Tianjin /fei⁵³/
Jinan /fei²¹/
Qingdao /fe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fi³¹²/
Xi'an /fi⁴⁴/
Xining /fɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /fei¹³/
Lanzhou /fei¹³/
Ürümqi /fei²¹³/
Wuhan /fei³⁵/
Chengdu /fei¹³/
Guiyang /fei²¹³/
Kunming /fei²¹²/
Nanjing /fəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /fe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuei³⁵/
Hohhot /fei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /fi³⁵/
Suzhou /vi³¹/
Hangzhou /fi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /fei⁴²/
Hui Shexian /fe³²⁴/
Tunxi /fe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /fei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fɨi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fi⁵³/
Taoyuan /fui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɐi³³/
Nanning /fɐi³³/
Hong Kong /fɐi³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hui²¹/
/pi²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hui²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fɔi³⁵/
Rime
Character 費 費 費
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 滂 (2) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 脂 (17) 微 (21) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III III III
Fanqie 兵媚切 芳未切 扶沸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠiɪH/ /pʰʉiH/ /bʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚiH/ /pʰʷɨiH/ /bʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piɪH/ /pʰiuəiH/ /biuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pjiH/ /pʰujH/ /bujH/
Li
Rong		 /pjiH/ /pʰiuəiH/ /biuəiH/
Wang
Li		 /piH/ /pʰĭwəiH/ /bĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piH/ /pʰwe̯iH/ /bʱwe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì fèi fèi
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 費 費 費
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 3299 3304 3310
Phonetic
component		 弗 弗 弗
Rime
group		 隊 隊 隊
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 祕 費 𥝋
Old
Chinese		 /*prɯds/ /*pʰɯds/ /*bɯds/
Notes 沸由涕校改

Definitions

費

  1. fee, bill
  2. to cost, to spend
  3. to consume much

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

費

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: ひ (hi), ふつ (futsu)
  • Kun: ついやす (tsuiyasu), ついえる (tsuieru), ついえ (tsuie)

Derived terms

Suffix

費 ‎(hiragana ひ, romaji -hi)

  1. cost, fee

Korean

Hanja

費 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

費 (phí, phía)

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