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HSK
to charge a fee
HSK 3
to consume (goods and services, resources etc)
HSK 3
tuition fee / tuition / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *费* | 费* | *费
to cost / to spend / fee / wasteful / expenses
HSK 3
to waste / to squander
HSK 3
cost / expenditure / expense / CL: 筆|笔, 個|个
HSK 3
to pay a fee
HSK 3
free (of charge)
HSK 4
funds / expenditure / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 5
consumer
HSK 5
expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
HSK 6
tip / gratuity
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
service charge / processing fee / commission
HSK 6
call charge
HSK 7-9
to pay / to cover the costs
HSK 7-9
to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander
HSK 7-9
at one's own expense / self-funded
HSK 7-9
to pay a fee
HSK 7-9
at public expense
HSK 7-9
child support payment (after a divorce)
HSK 7-9
management fee
HSK 7-9
to require effort / strenuous
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *费* | 费* | *费
surname Fei
tax; levy; duty
freight fee
to be in arrears / to be out of credit / amount owing
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher
party membership dues
rate / tariff
to expend a great deal of effort
insurance premium
travel expenses / money for a voyage / toll
postage
to renew a subscription
to take time / time-consuming
incidental costs / sundries / extras
membership dues
room charge
to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom) / to beat one's brains out
to be puzzled / hard to understand / unintelligible / incomprehensible
author's remuneration / CL: 筆|笔
water bill
Feixian county in Linyi 臨沂|临沂, Shandong
(postal, telecom etc) service charge
to waste (one's energy etc)
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
extravagance and waste (idiom)
passenger fare
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort
troublesome / to take a lot of trouble to do sth
to spend (money or time)
government funded / paid by state stipend
military expenditure
to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc) / to try in vain
(name) Fisher or Fischer
travel expenses
to spend effort / to take trouble / May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request) / Please would you mind...?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / abbr. for 費拉德爾菲亞|费拉德尔菲亚
to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth) / may I trouble you (to do sth)
the Ferghana Valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
to waste / to squander
road maintenance tax (China)
Fermi (name) / Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
a kind act that costs nothing
publishing fee; page charge
remittance fee
Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician
to talk at length / to waste one's breath / variant of 廢話|废话
transfer fee / signing bonus / sign-on bonus
insurance fee
subscription (rate)
Feinman or Feynman (name) / Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate together with TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō and Julian Schwinger
Theodor of Fyodor (name)
medical fees
Felix
annual fee
Le Figaro
overtime pay
property management fee
unnecessary expenses
to waste / to squander
admission fee
registration fee
to waste / to squander
freeware
hush money
business travel expenses
(math.) Fermat's Last Theorem
excessive consumption; spending beyond one's means
food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost)
consumer protection (law)
pheromone
labor cost
consumer finance
Tenerife
surcharge
appearance fee
low cost
shipping / sea transport

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