jiàjie

price

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

賈 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎ

  

merchant, trade

Evolution

價 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
價 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jià

price, value; price; value; (chemistry) valence

() 

jie

great; good; middleman; servant

Most common words with 價
Freq.
Word
Meaning

价格

price

价值

value

price

代价

price

评价

to evaluate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qˤ<r>aʔ-s (or *mə.qˤ<r>aʔ-s?)

kaeH

jià

price


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 57.6325% of movies

701st most common character in movies

409th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+50F9

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“價,物直也。从人、賈,賈亦聲。”


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