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Chinese symbol for “value”

价值
jià zhí
Traditional: 價值
value; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values

The closest CC-CEDICT match for value is 价值 (jià zhí), defined as: value; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values.

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Characters and stroke order

价 jià
price, value
radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes
值 zhí
price, value, worth
radical 9 ⼈ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “value”

WordPinyinMeaning
值zhívalue; (to be) worth
估价 (估價)gū jiàto value; to appraise
重视 (重視)zhòng shìto attach importance to sth; to value
看重kàn zhòngto regard as important; to value
货值 (貨值)huò zhívalue (of goods)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 价值.

WordPinyinMeaning
价格 (價格)jià géprice
评价 (評價)píng jiàto evaluate; to assess
代价 (代價)dài jiàprice; cost
价值观 (價值觀)jià zhí guānvalue system; personal or cultural values
价钱 (價錢)jià qianprice
值得zhí deworth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
产值 (產值)chǎn zhívalue of output; output value
数值 (數值)shù zhínumerical value

See also: Japanese symbol for “value”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.