Chinese symbol for “troublesome”
费事
fèi shì
Traditional: 費事
troublesome; to take a lot of trouble to do sth
The closest CC-CEDICT match for troublesome is 费事 (fèi shì), defined as: troublesome; to take a lot of trouble to do sth.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “troublesome”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 作 | zuō | (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop |
| 事儿 (事兒) | shì r | one's employment; business |
| 卢 (盧) | lú | (old) rice vessel; black |
| 讨厌 (討厭) | tǎo yàn | to dislike; to loathe; annoying; troublesome |
| 麻烦 (麻煩) | má fan | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 费事.
| 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) |
| 费用 (費用) | fèi yòng | cost; expenditure |
| 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 |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “troublesome”.
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.