漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
値: price, cost
Also: value
亻 carries the meaning · 直 gives the sound
Three readings, and the words that use each
チchi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 価値かちvalue
- 数値すうちnumerical value
- 平均値へいきんちmean value
ねne · kun'yomi · on its own
- 値段ねだんprice
- 値上げねあげmark-up
- 値切るねぎるknock down a price
- 値引きするねびきするdiscount [v.t.]
あたいatai · kun'yomi
- 値するあたいするbe worth it, be deserving
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as ⺅ (meaning) + 直 (sound)
The character originally conveyed the meaning of "to stand upright." Associated with the character 直, it meant "to hit" or "to be correct," and by extension, it came to mean "value" or "worth.".
Source: Wiktionary, 値 (rev. 92722712), 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.”
Connections
Also built on straightaway (直)
値 takes the 直 family's reading, チ (chi).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 值 · zhí
値 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 值 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 值 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 值 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.