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

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.

費事

to take a lot of trouble to do something
(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!
(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.

費事

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.

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