費心

Chinese

		to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname	heart; mind
trad. (費心)		費	心
simp. (费心)		费	心

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèixīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³ sam¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hùi-sim

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèixīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèisin
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴-hsin¹
    • Yale: fèi-syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyshin
    • Palladius: фэйсинь (fɛjsinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fai³ sam¹
    • Yale: fai sām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai³ sam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fei³ sem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³ sɐm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùi-sim
    • Tâi-lô: huì-sim
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huiesym
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hui²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sim³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui¹¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui²¹⁻⁴¹ sim⁴⁴/

Verb

費心

1. to consume one's energy
2. (honorific) to take the trouble (for example in sentences such as “May I trouble you to ...?”)

Derived terms

• 多謝費心 / 多谢费心
• 費心勞力 / 费心劳力
• 費心費力 / 费心费力

Related terms

• 費神／费神 (fèishén)
• 勞神／劳神 (láoshén)