surname Fei
to cost / to spend / fee / wasteful / expenses

= + : Frankenstein's monster finds that here is a crab in a woven basket for sale in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He feels sorry for the crab, spends a lot of money to purchase it and releases it into freedom.

费 character breakdown

not (literary) / used in transliteration

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a woven basket, because the interweaving strokes of 弗 remind me of a woven pattern.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance Frieda Fox wants to shoot kitchen knifes at a woven basket with a composite bow, but since the knifes are too short, she's not really able to.
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
(literary) not / used in transliteration

Characters with 费 as component

fermium (chemistry)

Words with 费

free (of charge)
at public expense
food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost)
insurance premium
(computing) paywall (loanword)
medical treatment at public expense
unnecessary expenses
see 三公經費|三公经费[san1 gong1 jing1 fei4]
"three public expenditures" of the PRC government, i.e. air travel, food and entertainment, and public vehicles
house call fee / callout fee
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease

Sentences with 费

wú
fèi
yi̅
bi̅ng
yi̅
zú