白费 meaning in English
to waste (one's energy etc)
Traditional 白費14 strokes
Meaning of 白费
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
báifèi
- to waste (one's energy etc)
白费 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
他们的努力都白费了。
All their efforts were in vain.
我们所有的努力都白费了。
All our efforts were in vain.
你白费力气了。
You're barking up the wrong tree.
我想解决这个问题，可是白费功夫。
I tried in vain to deal with the problem.
毫无希望，白费心思。
Here goes nothing.
Stroke order for each character
Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.
白 bái · white · 5 strokes
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费 fèi · to cost · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 白费.
| 明白 | míngbai | clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable |
| 白天 | báitiān | daytime; during the day |
| 白色 | báisè | white; fig. reactionary |
| 浪费 | làngfèi | to waste; to squander |
| 费用 | fèiyong | cost; expenditure |
| 学费 | xuéfèi | tuition fee; tuition |
| 收费 | shōufèi | to charge a fee |
| 消费 | xiāofèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 白菜 | báicài | Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); sometimes used to re |
| 交费 | jiāofèi | to pay a fee |
| 免费 | miǎnfèi | free (of charge) |
| 经费 | jīngfèi | funds; expenditure |
Questions about 白费
What does 白费 mean?
白费 (báifèi) means "to waste (one's energy etc)".
How do you write 白费?
白费 is made of 2 characters: 白 (5 strokes), 费 (9 strokes). That is 14 strokes in total.
How is 白费 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 白费 is written 白費.