HSK 4 · Work

价格 jiàgé “price” in Chinese

Traditional 價格

What 价格 means

  1. price

How to say 价格

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale价jià4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale格gé2nd tone, rising

价格 in a sentence

  1. 这个价格不合理。

    Zhè ge jiàgé bù hélǐ.

    This price isn’t reasonable.

    Sentence #334855 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 价格还会继续涨吗?

    Jiàgé hái huì jìxù zhǎng ma?

    Will prices keep going up?

    Sentence #10457794 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 蔬菜的价格每天在变。

    Shūcài de jiàgé měitiān zài biàn.

    Vegetable prices change every day.

    Sentence #346694 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 价格 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 价 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
价jiàprice
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 介agent · jièSound part
The character 格 (gé) with each of its parts in a different colour
格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 各individual · gèSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 各 (gè) hints at the sound. Compare it with gé.

How to write 价格

价 6 strokes · 格 10 strokes

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价格 (jiàgé) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 价格 (jiàgé). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 价格

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FAQs

价格 (jiàgé) means “price”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it jiàgé: jià with a 4th tone, then gé with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 价格 is written 價格. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiage with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 价格 from the suggestions. Typing jiage into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
价格 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.