Chinese symbol for “wasteful”
费
fèi
Traditional: 費
to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wasteful is 费 (fèi), defined as: to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wasteful”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侈靡 | chǐ mí | wasteful; extravagant |
| 侈 | chǐ | extravagant; wasteful |
| 大手大脚 (大手大腳) | dà shǒu dà jiǎo | extravagant (idiom); to throw away money by the handful; wasteful |
| 奢泰 | shē tài | extravagant; sumptuous |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 费.
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wasteful”.
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.