値
ね · ne · JLPT N3 · noun
value
🏷️💴 ね sounds like net, as in net price; 亻 person + 直 straight = a straight price
値 combines 亻 (person) with 直 (straight, direct): the honest amount a person is owed. Read ね, it appears in 値段 (nedan, price) and 値上げ (neage, price rise). Its other reading, あたい (atai), means value or worth.
あたい · atai · JLPT N1 · noun
worth
🏷️ Sounds like a tie: the price tag tied onto goods shows its worth
Written with the person radical 亻 beside 直 (straight, direct). Pair the sound atai with the tag tied to goods.