Waste in Chinese
to waste · HSK 4
浪费
- 浪 wave
- 费 fee
别浪费时间了。 Stop wasting time.
Other ways to say waste
More words with 浪 or 费
How do you say waste in Chinese?
Waste in Chinese is 浪费 (làng fèi). You can also say 耽误 (dān wù), 费 (fèi).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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