价
jià , jie · HSK 5
price
💰 价 = 亻(person) + 介 (jie, between) — what a person sets between buyer and seller: the price
Phonetic-semantic: 亻gives the human/social side (pricing is a human act), 介 supplies the sound (jie → jià). Modern senses extend from market price to abstract value, and in chemistry to valence (bonding 'value').
价 — person radical 亻 + 介 (jiè)
价 is the simplified form of 價. The traditional form combines 亻 (person) with 賈 (merchant), pointing to the act of pricing goods. In the simplified version, 賈 was replaced by the phonetic 介, which hints at the 'jià' reading while keeping the 'person' radical for the trading sense.