U+8D39 "费" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D39 "费" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cost," "fee," "expenses," or "to spend," and it is composed of the radical 贝 (shell, representing wealth or money) and a phonetic component 弗. This character is widely used in modern Chinese and Japanese (as a shinjitai kanji, where it also means expenses or to cost) and is found in common words like 费用 (fèiyong, meaning cost or charge) and 浪费 (làngfèi, meaning to waste). It belongs to the block of CJK Unified Ideographs, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese scripts, and its long history in written East Asian languages reflects its fundamental role in economic and domestic vocabulary.