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價

價

價 U+50F9, 價
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50F9
← 僸
[U+50F8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僺 →
[U+50FA]
See also: 价 and 価

Translingual

Traditional 價
Shinjitai 価
Simplified 价

Han character

價 (radical 9 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人一田金 (OMWC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰亻賈)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 118, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1163
  • Dae Jaweon: page 250, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 224, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+50F9

Chinese

trad. 價
simp. 价

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 價
Small seal script

s05921
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (襾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
賈 *kraːʔ, *kraːs, *klaːʔ
檟 *kraːʔ
價 *kraːs
覀 *qʰraːʔ
襾 *qraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraːs) : semantic 人 + phonetic 賈 ‎(OC *kraːʔ, *kraːs, *klaːʔ, “sell”).

Etymology

Perhaps related to 賈 (OC *kraːʔ, *kraːs, *klaːʔ, “to sell”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 價
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古訝切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨH/
Li
Rong		 /kaH/
Wang
Li		 /kaH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jià
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 價
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jià
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kæH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qˤ<r>aʔ-s/ (or *mə.qˤ<r>aʔ-s?)
English price

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 價
Reading # 1/1
No. 14202
Phonetic
component		 襾
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 駕
Old
Chinese		 /*kraːs/
Notes 見管子

Definitions

價

  1. price; cost
  2. value; worth
  3. (chemistry) valence; valency

Descendants

  • Lao: ຄ່າ ‎(khā)
  • Thai: ค่า ‎(kâa)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

價

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 価)

  1. worth, value

Readings

Korean

Hanja

價 • ‎(ga)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 가 (revised: ga, McCune-Reischauer: ka)
  • Name (hangeul): 값 (revised: gap, McCune-Reischauer: kap)
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

價 (giá)

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