費

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See also: 费
費 U+8CBB, 費
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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

Chinese

trad. 費
simp. 费
2nd round simp. 弗
alternative forms 廢／废 “naughty”
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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

Note:
  • hùi - literary (incl. surname in Taiwan);
  • pì - vernacular (incl. surname in mainland China).
Note: bi3 - surname.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /hui²¹/
/pi²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xi³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /hui²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fɔi³⁵/
Rime
Character 費
Reading # 2/3
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳未切
Baxter phj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰiuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰujH/
Li
Rong 		/pʰiuəiH/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰwe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fei3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 費
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fèi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phj+jH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰt-s/
English squander

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 費
Reading # 2/3
No. 3304
Phonetic
component 		弗
Rime
group 		隊
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		費
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰɯds/

Definitions

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; toll
  5. loquacious; garrulous; verbose; (of words) superfluous
  6. (Jilu, Lanyin, Jianghuai and Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu) naughty; mischievous
  7. (historical) placename in the southwest of modern-day Yutai County, Shandong
  8. a surname
    費孝通／费孝通  ―  Fèi Xiàotōng  ―  Fei Xiaotong (Chinese anthropologist and sociologist)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 費
Reading # 3/3
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 扶沸切
Baxter bj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bujH/
Li
Rong 		/biuəiH/
Wang
Li 		/bĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱwe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fei6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 費
Reading # 3/3
No. 3310
Phonetic
component 		弗
Rime
group 		隊
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		𥝋
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯds/
Notes 沸由涕校改

Definitions

費

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

Pronunciation 3

Note: Often mispronounced fèi.
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
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

費

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

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

費

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

Japanese

Kanji

費

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. cost, expense

Readings

Derived terms

Suffix

費(ひ) • (-hi) 

  1. cost, fee

Korean

Hanja

費 (eumhun 쓸 비 (sseul bi))

  1. Hanja form? of 비 (“spend; cost”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

費: Hán Nôm readings: phí, phía

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Zhuang

Noun

費

  1. Sawndip form of feiz (“fire”)
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