料金|りょうきんryoukin[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. nounfee; charge; fare
   料金りょうきんは会計かいけい係かかりへ払はらって下ください。↗

   Pay your dues to the treasurer.

• Synonym代価だいかWrittenWritten/formal: the price paid for goods, also figuratively the sacrifice made to achieve something, as in 「勝利の代価」; strongly bookish.
• Synonym代金だいきんNeutralThe money paid when buying something, as in 「商品代金」; 「料金」 is mostly for using services and facilities.
• Synonym料りょうNeutralA suffix that forms specific fee names such as 「入場料」「手数料」「使用料」; rarely used on its own.
• SynonymフィーNeutralLoanword for fees, mainly professional services and handling charges, as in 「エージェントフィー」; in everyday speech 「料金」 or 「手数料」 is more common.
• Related勘定かんじょうNeutralThe bill or paying it, as in 「お勘定お願いします」; used mostly at restaurants. 「料金」 is the charge for using a facility or service.
• Related費用ひようNeutralThe total money spent to do something, as in 「旅行の費用」; 「料金」 is what users are charged at a set rate.
• Related経費けいひWrittenWritten/formal: the running costs of doing or operating something, as in 「経費で落とす」; mostly company use, and it names outlays rather than a set rate charged to users.
• Related定価ていかNeutralThe fixed list price marked on a product, as in 「定価で買う」; 「料金」 is for charges for services and facilities.
• RelatedコストNeutralThe cost of production or running a business, as in 「コスト削減」; an expense borne by the payer, while 「料金」 is collected from users.
• RelatedプライスCasualColloquial loanword for price, seen in ads and on product labels, as in 「特別プライス」; in daily speech say 「値段」.
• Related価格かかくNeutralThe price of goods, on the formal side, as in 「販売価格」; 「料金」 covers water, power, transport and service charges.
• Related価額かがくWrittenWritten/formal: a legal and accounting term for a value expressed in money, as in 「課税価額」; not used in everyday speech.
• Related値段ねだんNeutralThe everyday word for the price of goods, as in 「値段が高い」; charges for services and transport usually take 「料金」.
• Relatedお代おだいNeutralA polite form of 「代金」 that shop staff often use to customers, as in 「お代は結構です」; 「料金」 sounds more objective.
• Related課金かきんNeutralCharging users or their paying for a service; in recent years mostly in-game and app payments, as in 「ガチャに課金する」.
• Antonym無料むりょうNeutralThe antonym: free of charge, the opposite of paying a 「料金」, as in 「入場無料」.

Use 「料金」 for charges for utilities, transport and services. For the price of goods say 「値段」 or 「価格」, for the money paid on a purchase 「代金」, for total spending 「費用」, and for free of charge 「無料」.

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1. 物ものを利用りようしたことに対たいし支払しはらう金かね。