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Mythic Mandarin

浪费 (làng fèi): meaning and stroke order

浪费 (làng fèi) means to waste, to squander.

浪费

Simplified
浪费
Traditional
浪費
Pinyin
làng fèi

Stroke order of 浪费

浪

  • làng wave; breaker
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

费

  • Fèi surname Fei
  • fèi to cost; to spend
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 費

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 浪费

  1. làng fèi Traditional 浪費
    • to waste
    • to squander

Radicals of the characters

浪
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 10 strokes · 氵 on the left, 良 on the right
费
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 弗 on top, 贝 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

浪费 in our stories

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  • 冯宁说：“一个电钻一辈子可能只用十几分钟，每家都买一个，太浪费了。”

    Féng Níng shuō yí gè diànzuàn yíbèizi kěnéng zhǐ yòng shíjǐ fēnzhōng měi jiā dōu mǎi yí gè tài làngfèi le

    Feng Ning said, "A drill might be used for a quarter of an hour in its whole life. Every family buying one is such a waste."

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 浪费

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).