All their efforts were in vain.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
白费
to waste (one's energy etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to waste (one's energy etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 白费 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白费 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Here goes nothing.
All our efforts were in vain.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 白费.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 白费.
Directly before
- 都白费2
- 可是白费1
Directly after
- 白费了2
- 白费心思1
- 白费功夫1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 白费
What does 白费 mean in Chinese?
白费 (báifèi) means to waste (one's energy etc).
How do you pronounce 白费?
白费 is pronounced báifèi.
Is 白费 an HSK word?
白费 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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