價 (jià) - Meaning, Stroke Order & Audio

價

jià[jia4]Tone 4

price

HSK 3

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价

Multiple Readings (多音字):

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English · price

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Topology:Left-right

Strokes:6

Writing Balance Rule: The left component (亻) is narrow and compressed, leaving the right component (介) slightly wider and balanced to occupy the remaining space without crowding.

Simplification Logic: Simplified from 價 by replacing the traditional phonetic component 臽 with 介, standardizing and reducing the stroke count.

1. Meaning

price

valuevalence (chemistry)

NounNeutral#commerce#finance#science

Sample Usage

这个产品的价格很高。
zhège chǎnpǐn de jiàgé hěn gāo.
The price of this product is very high.
我们要考虑它的价值。
wǒmen yào kǎolǜ tā de jiàzhí.
We need to consider its value.

2. Sound

/[t͡ɕia˥˩]/Tone: 51

價

jiàjia4

`(51)

=jià

Initial Consonant

Type: Unaspirated Alveolo-Palatal

Sounds like: soft j as in 'jeep' (alveolo-palatal)

Unaspirated

Airflow Tactile Test: No air puff. Lips spread wide like smiling.

Tongue & Mouth Position: The blade of the tongue rises toward the hard palate just behind the alveolar ridge.

Final Rhyme

Vowel Group: -a vowel group

Sounds like: rhymes with 'ee-ah'

Mouth Shape Guide: Pronounce as standalone vowel 'yah'.

Common Learner Trap: Keep vowel quality steady across all 4 tone contours.

Tone

T4 (51)

5 → 1 (51)

4th Tone (High-Falling)

Tone Pitch & Cadence: Tone 4 starts high and drops abruptly, exactly like saying 'No!' or 'Stop!' in English with strong emphasis.

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Listening trap: Mistaking Tone 4 (falling 51) for Tone 1 (high level 55) or Tone 2 (rising 35), turning the cost or price into a question.

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Physical Tone Gesture: A sharp karate chop downwards, mirroring the falling pitch from high to low.

3. Writing

Topology: Left-right · Strokes: 6 strokes

Writing Balance Rule: The left component (亻) is narrow and compressed, leaving the right component (介) slightly wider and balanced to occupy the remaining space without crowding.

Simplification Logic: Simplified from 價 by replacing the traditional phonetic component 臽 with 介, standardizing and reducing the stroke count.

4. Components

Radical 亻 · person radical (human, person)

Semantic Clue (形旁): 亻 (indicates that price or value relates to human transactions and societal evaluation)

Phonetic Clue (声旁): 介 (original sound: jiè)

A person (亻) stands between (介) buyer and seller to determine the price or value of an item.

亻 person
介 to be situated between, phonetic and meaning hint

5. History

Liushu category: Phono-semantic (形声)

Origin: Combined the person radical (亻) representing human involvement with 介 as the phonetic indicator giving the sound jià and the underlying sense of intermediary valuation.

Semantic Evolution: Originally referred to human evaluation or worth, expanding over time to commercial prices, abstract values, and chemical valences.

The character bridges tangible human commerce with abstract worth.
In chemistry, it was adopted to translate 'valence' due to the concept of combining capacity or value.

6. Sinosphere

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Kanji (Japanese)

On: カ (ka) / Kun: あたい (atai)

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Hanja (Korean)

價

7. Memory

Vivid Mnemonic Story

A PERSON (亻) stands BETWEEN (介) two merchants, shouting out the final PRICE (jià) of the artifact.

Phonetic Family (形声字家族)

介

jièto introduce, individualWithout the person radical, it means 'to lie between' or serve as an intermediary.

价

jiègood, great (dialectal)Simplified form of 價, but also used independently with different semantic values.

Lookalikes & Traps (形近字)

介(jiè)

介 is missing the person radical (亻) on the left and means 'between'.

假(jiǎ)

假 uses 叚 on the right instead of 介, meaning 'fake' or 'holiday'.

8. Mastery

Active Recall Challenge

這件衣服的[___]很合理。

Clue: jià gé

Common Learner Pitfall

Confusing the fourth tone (jià) with a neutral or first tone, or mixing up the right-side phonetic component with similar-looking characters like 假.

Memory Prompts

Recognition: When you see 价 with the person radical and 介, what is its primary meaning and reading?

Production: How do you write the character for 'price' (jià) using the person radical and the phonetic component for 'between'?

價jiàprice

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