浪費

See also: 浪费

Chinese

		wave; breaker; unrestrained wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated	to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname
trad. (浪費)		浪	費
simp. (浪费)		浪	费

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): làngfèi

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˋ ㄈㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁶ fai³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): long-fi / nong-fi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lōng-hùi

(Teochew, Peng'im): lang⁶ hui³
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶laon-fi₅

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: làngfèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˋ ㄈㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: làngfèi
  - Wade–Giles: lang⁴-fei⁴
  - Yale: làng-fèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lanqfey
  - Palladius: ланфэй (lanfɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: long⁶ fai³
  - Yale: lohng fai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: long⁶ fai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: long⁶ fei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²² fɐi̯³³/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: long-fi
  - Hakka Romanization System: long fi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: long⁴ fi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /loŋ⁵⁵ fi⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: long-fi / nong-fi
  - Hakka Romanization System: long fi / nong fi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: long⁴ fi⁴ / nong⁴ fi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /loŋ⁵⁵ fi⁵⁵/, /noŋ⁵⁵ fi⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-hùi
  - Tâi-lô: lōng-huì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loxnghuix
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ hui²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² hui⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ hui²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ hui¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ³³⁻²¹ hui²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lang⁶ hui³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lăng hùi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ hui²¹³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiaxing)
  - Wugniu: ⁶laon-fi₅
  - MiniDict: laon^去 fi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³laan-fi₂
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lɑ̃²² fi⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /lɑ̃¹³ fi²¹/

Verb

浪費

to waste; to squander
浪費時間／浪费时间 ― làngfèi shíjiān ― to waste time

浪費生命／浪费生命 ― làngfèi shēngmìng ― to waste one's life

減少浪費／减少浪费 ― jiǎnshǎo làngfèi ― to reduce waste

Synonyms

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加了 (Hokkien, chiefly money)
干了 (Hokkien, chiefly money)
抖落 (dǒuluò)
折騰 / 折腾 (zhēteng) (colloquial)
拋荒 / 抛荒 (pāohuāng)
揮霍 / 挥霍 (huīhuò)
曠廢 / 旷废 (kuàngfèi)
枉費 / 枉费 (wǎngfèi)
無彩 / 无彩 (Hokkien)
白了 (Hokkien)
白白了 (Hokkien)
白費 / 白费 (báifèi)
空費 / 空费 (kōngfèi)
糟蹋 (zāotà)
耽誤 / 耽误 (chiefly time)
荒廢 / 荒废 (huāngfèi)
虛耗 / 虚耗 (xūhào)
靡費 / 靡费 (mífèi) (formal)

Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		靡
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		浪費, 靡費
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	糟蹋, 糟踐
	Taiwan	浪費, 糟蹋
	Harbin	糟踐
	Singapore	浪費
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	糟蹋, 糟踐
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	糟蹋
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	糟蹋, 拋撒
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	糟蹋, 拋撒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	作蹋
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	糟蹋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嘥, 嘥撻
	Hong Kong	嘥
	Taishan	嘥
	Kaiping (Chikan)	嘥
	Dongguan	嘥
	Yangjiang	嘥
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	嘥, 嘥yang
	Singapore (Guangfu)	嘥
Gan	Nanchang	糟蹋
Hakka	Meixian	浪撇
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打爽
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打爽, 浪核
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打爽
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打爽
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打爽
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	打爽
Jin	Taiyuan	糟蹋
Northern Min	Jian'ou	糟蹋
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	敗, 作蹋
Southern Min	Xiamen	拍損, 仄挩
	Quanzhou	拍損, 仄挩
	Zhangzhou	拍損
	Tainan	拍損, 仄挩
	Penang (Hokkien)	拍損
	Klang (Hokkien)	拍損, 了, 賽央
	Singapore (Hokkien)	拍損, 了
	Manila (Hokkien)	仄挩, 了
	Chaozhou	噠浪
	Jieyang	噠浪
	Singapore (Teochew)	拍損
Wu	Suzhou	糟蹋
Wu	Wenzhou	糟, 殘嘈
Xiang	Changsha	糟蹋
Xiang	Shuangfeng	糟蹋

Antonyms

節省／节省 (jiéshěng)
節約／节约 (jiéyuē)

Adjective

浪費

wasteful

Derived terms

鋪張浪費 / 铺张浪费 (pūzhānglàngfèi)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
浪	費
ろう Grade: S	ひ Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ろーひ [ròóhí] (Heiban – [0])
(Tokyo) ろーひ [róꜜòhì] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [ɾo̞ːçi]

Noun

浪(ろう)費(ひ) • (rōhi)

waste, extravagance

Verb

浪(ろう)費(ひ)する • (rōhi suru) transitive suru (stem 浪(ろう)費(ひ)し (rōhi shi), past 浪(ろう)費(ひ)した (rōhi shita))

to waste, to squander
- 2025 April 23, 原口一博 [Kazuhiro Haraguchi], quotee, “第217回国会　衆議院　北朝鮮による拉致問題等に関する特別委員会　第3号　令和7年4月23日 [217th Diet, House of Representatives, Special Committee on the North Korean Abduction Issue, No. 3, April 23, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 28 September 2025:
  
  もうこれでやめにしますが、今(いま)の時間(じかん)取(ど)りの答弁(とうべん)で、かなり時間(じかん)を浪費(ろうひ)しました。
  Mō kore de yame ni shi masu ga, ima no jikan dori no tōben de, kanari jikan o rōhi shi mashita.
  I'll stop here, as I've wasted a lot of time with this just to get perfunctory responses.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "浪費する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	浪費し	ろうひし	rōhi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	浪費し	ろうひし	rōhi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	浪費する	ろうひする	rōhi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	浪費する	ろうひする	rōhi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	浪費すれ	ろうひすれ	rōhi sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	浪費せよ¹ 浪費しろ²	ろうひせよ¹ ろうひしろ²	rōhi seyo¹ rōhi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	浪費される	ろうひされる	rōhi sareru
Causative	浪費させる浪費さす	ろうひさせるろうひさす	rōhi saseru rōhi sasu
Potential	浪費できる	ろうひできる	rōhi dekiru
Volitional	浪費しよう	ろうひしよう	rōhi shiyō
Negative	浪費しない	ろうひしない	rōhi shinai
Negative continuative	浪費せず	ろうひせず	rōhi sezu
Formal	浪費します	ろうひします	rōhi shimasu
Perfective	浪費した	ろうひした	rōhi shita
Conjunctive	浪費して	ろうひして	rōhi shite
Hypothetical conditional	浪費すれば	ろうひすれば	rōhi sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

“浪費”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
浪	費

Noun

浪費 • (nangbi) (hangeul 낭비)

hanja form^? of 낭비 (“waste; extravagance”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
浪	費

Verb

浪費

chữ Hán form of lãng phí (“to waste; to squander”)