jià
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Japanese variant form of 价 (價), price; value
  2. 2 (archaic, rare Chinese reading sì) to resemble

Examples

Rìběn de jiàgé biāoqiān shàng bǎ jià xiě chéng jià.
On Japanese price tags the character for "price" is written 価, the shinjitai of 價.

Tips

history
Not a standard modern Chinese character. It is the Japanese postwar simplified (shinjitai) form of ; mainland China simplified the same character to instead. An old Chinese dictionary reading sì meaning 'to resemble' also exists but is essentially unused.
mistakes
Do not use when writing Chinese — the correct simplified character is (price), as in 价格.

Components

radical
rén
person
The person radical is kept from the original , where value was framed as something set among people in trade.
ideograph
西
west; here a simplified residue
The right side is a Japanese stylized reduction of the much busier right half of ; it no longer maps to any meaning and is purely a simplified graphic residue.

No stroke data for ; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

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