jià, jie
price
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 賈 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qˤ<r>aʔ-s (or *mə.qˤ<r>aʔ-s?) | kaeH | jià | price |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 57.6325% of movies
701st most common character in movies
409th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50F9 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“價,物直也。从人、賈,賈亦聲。” |
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