漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
価: value, price
JLPT N18 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 覀 gives the sound
8 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 価格かかくprice
- 価値かちvalue
- 物価ぶっかcost-of-living
- 定価ていかlist price
- 高価なこうかなexpensive
- 安価なあんかなcheap
- 評価するひょうかするevaluate
あたいatai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 価あたいvalue
Also read ケ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 (meaning) + 賈 sell (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 價 (rev. 88652171), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side価 value · 亻
vs要 need · 女In ChineseSimplified 价 · traditional 價 · jià
Three different forms: Japanese 価, simplified 价, traditional 價.
- Simplified
- 价 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 價 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jià most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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