費事

費事

See also: 费事

Chinese

		to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (費事)		費	事
simp. (费事)		费	事
variant forms		廢事／废事 Cantonese senses

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèishì

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³ si⁶
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): hui³ se⁷ / hui³ su⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fèishì
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyshyh
    • IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: fèishìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˋㄦ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyshell
    • IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩əɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fai³ si⁶
    • Yale: fai sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai³ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fei³ xi⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³ siː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hui³ se⁷ / hui³ su⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hùi sṳ̄ / hùi sū
    • IPA ^(key): /hui²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sɯ¹¹/, /hui²¹³⁻⁵⁵ su¹¹/

Note: hui3 se7 - Chaozhou.

Verb

費事

1. to take a lot of trouble to do something
2. (Cantonese) to not feel like doing something; to not bother to do something

   費事睬你！ / 费事睬你！ [Cantonese]  ―  Fai³ si⁶ coi² nei⁵! [Jyutping]  ―  I couldn't care less about you!

3. (Cantonese) to avoid

   嗱，還返筆錢畀你，費事爭你咁耐啦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   嗱，还返笔钱畀你，费事争你咁耐啦。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Naa⁴, waan⁴ faan¹ bat¹ cin² bei² nei⁵, fai³ si⁶ caang¹ nei⁵ gam³ noi⁶ laa¹. [Jyutping]

   Here, I'm returning you the money, so that I don't owe you any longer.

Derived terms

不用費事／不用费事

Adjective

費事

1. time-consuming; troublesome

   這麼做太費事，不如換個方法。 [MSC, trad.]
   这么做太费事，不如换个方法。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhème zuò tài fèishì, bùrú huàn ge fāngfǎ. [Pinyin]

   Doing it this way is too troublesome - it would be better to try another way.