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noun HSK 2
Traditional 價
jià
price · value

Meaning

价 refers to the monetary cost or worth of something. It's one of the most fundamental commercial terms in Chinese and appears in countless compound words related to pricing, economics, and value.

Usage

价 rarely appears alone in modern usage; it almost always combines with other characters to form compound words like 价格 (price), 价钱 (price), or 物价 (commodity prices). When discussing costs, native speakers typically use these compound forms rather than 价 by itself.

Examples

  1. 01
    这里的房价太高了。
    Zhèlǐ de fáng jià tài gāo le.
    The housing prices here are too high.
  2. 02
    最近物价一直在涨。
    Zuìjìn wù jià yīzhí zài zhǎng.
    Commodity prices have been rising lately.

Common collocations

  • 降价
    jiàng jià
    to reduce price
  • 涨价
    zhǎng jià
    to raise price
  • 讨价还价
    tǎo jià huán jià
    to bargain
  • 无价
    wú jià
    priceless

Origin

The traditional form 價 combines the person radical 亻with 賈 (merchant, to trade), indicating the human activity of pricing and trade.

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