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私費 (しひ, shihi) Japanese meaning: private expense | Kotomora
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She studied at a university overseas at her own expense.
Those materials were purchased by the researcher with personal funds.
Expressions 私し 費ひ で at one's own expense; privately funded Related words 私費 contrasts private funds with public or institutional money, while 自費 emphasizes that the person receiving the benefit is the one paying, often used for things like 自費出版 (self-published).
私費 is a formal term for private funds used instead of public money, whereas ポケットマネー is a more casual, borrowed word for one's own spending money.
Opposites 私費 is money paid from a private individual's own pocket, while 公費 is money paid from public or government funds.
私費 means paying with one's own private money, the direct opposite of 国費, which is money spent by the national government.
私費 means money paid from one's own private funds, the opposite of 公金, which belongs to a government or public body.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 私, meaning “private” or “personal,” and 費, meaning “expense” or “cost.”
