Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 費


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Meaning

expense, spend, consume, cost

Pronunciation

HI
tsuiyasu

Explanation

Top: dollar 弗 (but here: flow heater with boiler coil and pipes || streaming through) (cf. to boil 沸), bottom: money

Mnemonic

A flow heater costs money and is thus: an expense.

Radicals

bow(Pictograph: bow without string.)
money(shell a cowries-shell (used as money))
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Vocabulary

費やす ついやす to spend/to devote/to waste
費用 ひよう cost/expense
燃料費 ねんりょうひ fuel expenses, cost of fuel
光熱費 こうねつひ cost of fuel and light
出費 しゅっぴ expenses, disbursements
実費 じっぴ actual expense, cost price
浪費 ろうひ waste, extravagance
消費 しょうひ consumption, expenditure
経費 けいひ expenses, cost, outlay


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