消费
Meaning
- to consume (goods and services, resources etc)
Example sentence
在日本生活消费很高。
Life in Japan is expensive.
Characters in 消费
- 消 xiāo to vanish, to dissolve; to eliminate
- 费 fèi to cost
消 to consume plus 费, to spend. 费 gives 费用, 学费 and 车费, always a charge; 消 is the using-up half.