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Chinese symbol for “tuition”

学费
xué fèi
Traditional: 學費
tuition fee; tuition; 个 (gè)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tuition is 学费 (xué fèi), defined as: tuition fee; tuition; 个 (gè).

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Characters and stroke order

学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes
费 fèi
expenses, fees; to cost, to spend; wasteful
radical 154 ⾙ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 学费.

WordPinyinMeaning
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
学校 (學校)xué xiàoschool; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
学习 (學習)xué xíto learn; to study
科学 (科學)kē xuéscience; scientific knowledge
学院 (學院)xué yuàncollege; educational institute
免费 (免費)miǎn fèifree (of charge)
消费 (消費)xiāo fèito consume (goods and services, resources etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “tuition”.

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.