HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Everyday Verbs

值 zhí “to be worth” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 值 means

  1. to be worth
  2. value
  3. to be on duty
  4. to happen to

How to say 值

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale值zhí2nd tone, rising

值 in a sentence

  1. 你的建议值得考虑。

    Nǐ de jiànyì zhíde kǎolǜ.

    Your suggestion is worth considering.

    Sentence #10635230 from Tatoeba

  2. 那部电影值得一看。

    Nà bù diànyǐng zhíde yí kàn.

    That film is worth seeing.

    Sentence #2029445 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这真的值得吗？

    Zhè zhēnde zhíde ma?

    Is it really worth it?

    Sentence #818891 from Tatoeba

How 值 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 值 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
值zhívalue
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 直straight · zhíSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 直 (zhí) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhí.

How to write 值

值 10 strokes

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

Words related to 值

Words with 值

值得zhíde · to be worth价值jiàzhí · value值班zhíbān · to be on duty

More words: Everyday Verbs

唱chàng · to sing开车kāichē · to drive a car睡shuì · to sleep听见tīngjiàn · to hear通tōng · to go through排pái · to line up留下liúxia · to leave behind待dāi · to stay

FAQs

值 (zhí) means “to be worth” or “value”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it zhí: zhí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 值 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 值 from the suggestions. Typing zhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
值 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older 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.