靡費
Chinese
extravagant; go with fashion; not extravagant; go with fashion; not; wasted |
to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (靡費) | 靡 | 費 | |
| simp. (靡费) | 靡 | 费 | |
| alternative forms | 糜費/糜费 | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: mífèi
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ ㄈㄟˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mífèi
- Wade–Giles: mi2-fei4
- Yale: mí-fèi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mifey
- Palladius: мифэй (mifɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi³⁵ feɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mei4 fai3
- Yale: mèih fai
- Cantonese Pinyin: mei4 fai3
- Guangdong Romanization: méi4 fei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /mei̯²¹ fɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
靡費
- (formal) to waste; to squander; to spend extravagantly
Synonyms
- 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)
- 浪費 / 浪费 (làngfèi)
- 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)
Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”) [map]