价位
jiàwèi · HSK 7
price
💰🏷️ 价 (price) + 位 (position/rank) = the price point or price level
价 means price and 位 means position or rank, so 价位 is the price slot a product sits in, like a price bracket or price point rather than one exact number.
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.
位 — person radical 亻 + stand 立
位 combines the person radical 亻 with 立 (to stand), originally depicting a person standing in their proper place at court. It came to mean 'position, rank, or place,' and is now also used as a polite measure word for people.