耗

hào

HSK 7freq #7391

Meanings

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hào

1.to waste
2.to spend
3.to consume
4.to squander
5.news
6.(coll.) to delay
7.to dilly-dally

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Wiktionary

1.to reduce; to decrease; to cut; to minimise
2.to weaken; to cripple
3.to consume; to use up
4.news (chiefly bad news)
5.to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
6.all used up; nothing left
7.dizzy; unconscious

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Etymology

Originally written as 秏. Note strong phonetic and semantic similarities to Burmese မော (mau:, “to be tired”).

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Stroke order

Components

耗耒毛

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

有關癌症成因的研究耗費頗巨。
Research on the causes of cancer is very expensive.
有關癌症成因的研究耗費頗巨。
Investigating the causes of cancer is very expensive.

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More examples & usage (AI)

Related words

消耗 to consume; to use up 耗费 to waste 耗时 time-consuming 能耗 energy consumption 燃耗 fuel consumption 耗资 to spend 折耗 loss of goods 内耗 internal friction 油耗 fuel consumption 低耗 low consumption (energy, fuel etc)耗失 (of sth that should be retained: nutrients, moisture, heat etc) to be lost 音耗 message