Traditional: 花費
花费 (huā fèi) means “expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word (traditional 花費) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
装修房子花费了不少钱。
Zhuāngxiū fángzi huā fèi le bù shǎo qián.
Renovating the house cost quite a lot of money.
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