值
zhí HSK3

price

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 直 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

直
直 Sound component
zhí straight

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdriHm-t<r>ək-s hold upright

說文解字

《說文》:“值,措也。从人,直聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica