物价
wùjià · HSK 5
commodity prices
💰📈 物 (goods) + 价 (price) = commodity prices
物 means goods or things; 价 means price or value. Together they refer to the general price level of goods in a market — what economists track as inflation or cost of living.
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.