All words › HSK 3 · Money & shopping
费
Meaning
- to cost
- to spend
- fee
Example sentence
不收小费。
No gratuity accepted.
The character 费
费 has 贝, money, at the foot: what a thing costs. A fee — 学费, 收费 to charge — and as a verb, to use up: 费时间, 浪费 to waste outright.