Chinese Character Wiki
值

zhí

price

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 直 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

直 sound component

直  Sound component

zhí

  

straight

Evolution

值 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
值 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

值  

zhí

price; value; (to be) worth; to happen to; to be on duty

Most common words with 值
Freq.
Word
Meaning

值得

to be worth

价值

value

值

value

值钱

valuable

值班

on duty

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-t<r>ək-s

driH

zhì

hold upright


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 57.9369% of movies

791st most common character in movies

600th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+503C

Shuowen

“值，措也。从人，直聲。”


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