费用

Character by character

• 费fèi9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 費expenses, expenditures, fee
• 用yòng5 strokesHSK 1use, employ, apply, operate; use

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 他计算费用。

  Tā jì suàn fèi yòng

  He calculated the expenses.

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• 每天费用多少？

  Měi tiān fèi yòng duō shao

  What's the daily fee?

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 费用. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 用yòngHSK 1

  to use; to employ; to have to; to eat or drink; expense or outlay; usefulness; hence; therefore

• 使用shǐ yòngHSK 2

  to use; to employ; to apply; to make use of

• 利用lì yòngHSK 3

  to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize

• 作用zuò yòngHSK 2

  to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

• 不用bù yòngHSK 1

  need not

• 免费miǎn fèiHSK 4

  free (of charge)

• 浪费làng fèiHSK 3

  to waste; to squander

• 费fèiHSK 3

  to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses

• 用于yòng yúHSK 5

  to use in; to use on; to use for

• 采用cǎi yòngHSK 3

  to adopt; to employ; to use

• 用来yòng láiHSK 5

  to be used for

• 运用yùn yòngHSK 4

  to use; to put to use

• 信用卡xìn yòng kǎHSK 2

  credit card

• 用户yòng hùHSK 5

  user; consumer; subscriber; customer

• 收费shōu fèiHSK 3

  to charge a fee

• 消费xiāo fèiHSK 3

  to consume; to spend

• 有用yǒu yòngHSK 1

  useful

• 没用méi yòngHSK 3

  useless

• 用品yòng pǐnHSK 6

  articles for use; products; goods

• 服用fú yòngHSK 7

  to take (medicine)

• 适用shì yòngHSK 3

  to be applicable

• 应用yìng yòngHSK 3

  to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc); application; practical use; (computing) app

• 花费huā fèiHSK 6

  expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure

• 用心yòng xīnHSK 6

  motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful