HSK 4 · Verbs

免费 miǎnfèi “free (of charge)” in Chinese

Traditional 免費

What 免费 means

  1. free (of charge)

How to say 免费

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale免miǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale费fèi4th tone, falling

免费 in a sentence

  1. 儿童免费入场。

    Értóng miǎnfèi rùchǎng.

    Children get in free.

    Sentence #784118 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 在这家酒店可以免费上无线网络。

    Zài zhè jiā jiǔdiàn kěyǐ miǎnfèi shàng wúxiàn wǎngluò.

    This hotel has free wi-fi.

    Sentence #8863173 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这是免费报纸。

    Zhè shì miǎnfèi bàozhǐ.

    This is a free newspaper.

    Sentence #348606 from Tatoeba

How 免费 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 免 (miǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
免miǎnto excuse sb
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 儿legs · ér
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 免费

免 7 strokes · 费 9 strokes

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

Words related to 免费

Words with 免

避免bìmiǎn · to avoid难免nánmiǎn · hard to avoid免疫miǎnyì · immunity不免bùmiǎn · inevitably免得miǎnde · so as not to未免wèimiǎn · rather以免yǐmiǎn · so as not to

Words with 费

浪费làngfèi · to waste消费xiāofèi · to consume耗费hàofèi · to consume经费jīngfèi · funds

More words: Common Verbs

浪费làngfèi · to waste理发lǐfà · to get a haircut连lián · even (连…都/也)留liú · to stay迷路mílù · to lose the way弄nòng · to do排队páiduì · to line up排列páiliè · to arrange in order

FAQs

免费 (miǎnfèi) means “free (of charge)”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it miǎnfèi: miǎn with a 3rd 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, 免费 is written 免費. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mianfei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 免费 from the suggestions. Typing mianfei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
免费 is an HSK 4 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.