费 費
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 費, the traditional character: 费 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“酒水免费吗？”“仅女士而已。”
"Are the drinks free?" "Only for ladies."
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Linux是一个免费的操作系统。你应该去试用一下。
Linux is a free operating system; you should try it.
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一粒米都不要浪费!
Waste not a single grain of rice!
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一般来说，消费者喜欢数量胜于质量。
In general, consumers prefer quantity to quality.
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不收小费。
No gratuity accepted.
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乘飞机去该岛，将花费你100美元。
It will cost you $100 to fly to the island.
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人生短暂，用来担心这种事情，实在太浪费了。
Life is too short to worry about things like that.
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他们的努力都白费了。
All their efforts were in vain.