Chinese symbol for “waste”
浪费
làng fèi
Traditional: 浪費
to waste; to squander
The closest CC-CEDICT match for waste is 浪费 (làng fèi), defined as: to waste; to squander.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “waste”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 耗费 (耗費) | hào fèi | to waste; to spend |
| 耗 | hào | to waste; to spend |
| 糟蹋 | zāo tà | to waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck |
| 白费 (白費) | bái fèi | to waste (one's energy etc) |
| 靡 | mí | to waste (money) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 浪费.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浪漫 | làng màn | romantic |
| 浪潮 | làng cháo | wave; tides |
| 流浪 | liú làng | to drift about; to wander |
| 海浪 | hǎi làng | sea wave |
| 波浪 | bō làng | wave |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “waste”.
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.