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价

jià

HSK 4 Character Traditional 價

What 价 means

1. price
2. value
3. chemistryvalence

Other readings

价 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jièmessenger; servant
• jieparticle used between an adverb and a verb or adjective; particle used after a negative ad

Example sentences

• 价格高。
  Prices are high.
• 物价上涨。
  Prices went up.
• 自由有价。
  One must pay for freedom.
• 你出价多少？
  Nǐ chūjià duōshao?
  How much did you bid?
• 股价下跌了。
  Gǔjià xiàdiē le.
  Stock prices dropped.
• 价钱很合理。
  The price is reasonable.

Words starting with 价

• 价格jià géprice
• 价值jià zhívalue; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values
• 价钱jià qianprice
• 价值观jià zhí guānvalue system; personal or cultural values
• 价位jià wèiprice level
• 价格战jià gé zhànprice war
• 价廉物美jià lián wù měiinexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
• 价值连城jià zhí lián chénginvaluable; priceless
• 价码jià mǎprice tag
• 价款jià kuǎncost
• 价差jià chāprice difference
• 价目jià mù(marked) price; tariff (in a restaurant etc)
• 价格表jià gé biǎoprice list; pricing table
• 价电子jià diàn zǐvalency electron; outer shell of electrons
• 价值量jià zhí liàngmagnitude of value; labor value (in economics, the labor inherent in a commodity)
• 价值工程jià zhí gōng chéngvalue engineering
• 价值标准jià zhí biāo zhǔnvalues; standards
• 价签jià qiānprice tag
• 价层jià céngvalency shell (chemistry)
• 价格标签jià gé biāo qiānprice tag
• 价键jià jiànvalence bond (chemistry)
• 价值增殖jià zhí zēng zhívalorization (in Marxist theory)

Words containing 价

• 评价píng jiàto evaluate; to assess
• 代价dài jiàprice; cost; consideration (in share dealing)
• 讨价还价tǎo jià huán jiàto haggle over price; to bargain
• 物美价廉wù měi jià liángood quality and cheap; a bargain
• 房价fáng jiàhouse price; cost of housing
• 票价piào jiàticket price; fare; admission fee
• 降价jiàng jiàto cut the price; to drive down the price; to get cheaper
• 售价shòu jiàselling price
• 定价dìng jiàto set a price; to fix a price
• 物价wù jià(commodity) prices
• 廉价lián jiàcheaply-priced; low-cost
• 报价bào jiàto quote a price; quoted price; quote
• 低价dī jiàlow price
• 有价值yǒu jià zhívaluable
• 特价tè jiàspecial price
• 高价gāo jiàhigh price
• 涨价zhǎng jiàto appreciate (in value); to increase in price
• 油价yóu jiàoil (petroleum) price
• 股价gǔ jiàstock price; share price
• 身价shēn jiàsocial status; price of a slave; price of a person (a sportsman etc)
• 原价yuán jiàoriginal price
• 标价biāo jiàto mark the price; marked price
• 性价比xìng jià bǐcost-performance ratio
• 天价tiān jiàextremely expensive; sky-high price

Characters that look like 价

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 份fènclassifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分
• 册cèbook; booklet; classifier for books
• 扮bànto disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role)
• 纷fēnnumerous; confused; disorderly
• 伶líng(old) actor; actress; (meaningless bound form)
• 汾fénname of a river

Sounds the same

Read jià, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 架to support; frame; rack
• 驾to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive
• 嫁(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)
• 稼to sow grain; (farm) crop
• 假vacation
• 幏cloth (archaic), esp. of southern ethnic groups