HSK 6 · Money

耗费 hàofèi “to consume” in Chinese

Traditional 耗費

What 耗费 means

  1. to consume
  2. to expend
  3. cost
  4. to waste
  5. to spend
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to squander

How to say 耗费

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale耗hào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale费fèi4th tone, falling

耗费 in a sentence

  1. 整个过程需要耗费数月。

    Zhěng ge guòchéng xūyào hàofèi shùyuè.

    The whole process will take several months.

    Sentence #8744964 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 撇开费用不说，建这座桥也会耗费不少的时间。

    Piēkāi fèiyòng bù shuō, jiàn zhè zuò qiáo yě huì hàofèi bùshǎo de shíjiān.

    Cost aside, building this bridge will also take a lot of time.

    Sentence #1553743 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 有关癌症成因的研究耗费颇巨。

    Yǒuguān áizhèng chéngyīn de yánjiū hàofèi pō jù.

    Research into the causes of cancer is very costly.

    Sentence #2511405 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 耗费 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 耗 (hào) with each of its parts in a different colour
耗hàoto waste
  • 耒plough · lěiMeaning part
  • 毛fur · máoSound part

耒 hints at the meaning (plough); 毛 (máo) hints at the sound. Compare it with hào.

The character 费 (fèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
费fèito cost
  • 弗not · fúSound part
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 弗 (fú) hints at the sound. Compare it with fèi.

How to write 耗费

耗 10 strokes · 费 9 strokes

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耗费 (hàofèi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 耗费 (hàofèi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 耗费

Words with 耗

消耗xiāohào · to consume

Words with 费

浪费làngfèi · to waste免费miǎnfèi · free (of charge)消费xiāofèi · to consume经费jīngfèi · funds

More words: Money & Economy

共计gòngjì · to total供给gōngjǐ · to supply股东gǔdōng · shareholder股份gǔfèn · share合算hésuàn · worthwhile回报huíbào · to repay挥霍huīhuò · to squander货币huòbì · currency

FAQs

耗费 (hàofèi) means “to consume” or “to expend”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hàofèi: hào with a 4th tone, then fèi with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 耗费 is written 耗費. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haofei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 耗费 from the suggestions. Typing haofei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
耗费 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.