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Kanji Detail for 費 - "cost, spend, expense"
費
- Meaning
費 means "cost, spend, expense."
Cost - An expense; a charge.
Spend - To use money or resources.
Consume - To use up.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
expense; cost; spend; consume; waste
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
expenses, expenditures, fee
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Fei
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
expenses, fees; to cost, to spend; wasteful
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To spend much money. Such as 糜費 (squander). | Expenses. Such as 經費 (operating expenses). | Using excessively and beyond proper measure is called 費. Such as excessive words is called 辭費 (wordy). | To waste or consume. Such as 費神 (expend mental energy), 費力 (expend effort), etc. | A place name in Lu during the Spring and Autumn period. Now Fei County, Shandong.
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Sentences including 費
I think of watching tv as a waste of time.
Five years have been spent building the new building.
Don't waste time.
What mileage do you get with this car?
I held the party at my own expense.
I am short of money for my trip.
I must make up for lost time.
He has spent three years writing this novel.
He tried to make up for lost time.
The problem is not so much the cost as the time.
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
国から旅費を送らせる手数と時間を省くため、私は暇乞いかたがた先生の所へ行って、要るだけの金を一時立て替えてもらう事にした。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
というのは、私は月々｜極った送金の外に、書籍費、（私はその時分から書物を買う事が好きでした）、および臨時の費用を、よく叔父から請求して、ずんずんそれを自分の思うように消費する事ができたのですから。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
けれども月々の費用を金の形で彼の前に並べて見せると、彼はきっとそれを受け取る時に躊躇するだろうと思ったのです。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
というのは、私は月々｜極った送金の外に、書籍費、（私はその時分から書物を買う事が好きでした）、および臨時の費用を、よく叔父から請求して、ずんずんそれを自分の思うように消費する事ができたのですから。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
けれども月々の費用を金の形で彼の前に並べて見せると、彼はきっとそれを受け取る時に躊躇するだろうと思ったのです。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha