Chinese symbol for “expenditure”
费用
fèi yòng
Traditional: 費用
cost; expenditure; expense; 笔 (bǐ),个 (gè)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for expenditure is 费用 (fèi yòng), defined as: cost; expenditure; expense; 笔 (bǐ),个 (gè).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “expenditure”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 经费 (經費) | jīng fèi | funds; expenditure |
| 花费 (花費) | huā fèi | expense; cost |
| 心血 | xīn xuè | heart's blood; expenditure (for some project) |
| 耗资 (耗資) | hào zī | to spend; expenditure |
| 支出 | zhī chū | to spend; to pay out; expenses; expenditure |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 费用.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 免费 (免費) | miǎn fèi | free (of charge) |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 收费 (收費) | shōu fèi | to charge a fee |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 浪费 (浪費) | làng fèi | to waste; to squander |
| 使用 | shǐ yòng | to use; to employ |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
| 用户 (用戶) | yòng hù | user; consumer |
See also: Japanese symbol for “expenditure”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.