Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 費

Modern (Beijing) reading: fèi

Preclassic Old Chinese: phǝts

Classic Old Chinese: phǝć

Western Han Chinese: phǝś

Eastern Han Chinese: phwǝś

Early Postclassic Chinese: phwɨś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwɨ̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: phwɨ̀j

Middle Chinese: phwɨ̀j

English meaning : to waste (money), expenses [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тратить, расходовать; расточать; расходы; убытки; ущерб; 2) излишний, ненужный; 3) широкий, щедрый; 4) Фэй (фамилия); [bì] сокр. Бисянь (уезд в провинции Шаньдун)

Comments: Also read *bhǝts, MC bwɨ̀j id.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 8033

Karlgren code: 0500 s-t

Vietnamese reading: phí

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