Character Details
| expensive | Ascii: — | w1011 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 贵 | guì | gwee | 4 | 中 (middle) + 贝 (shell) → expensive | 贵 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Those who live amongst (中) a (一) huge pile of money (贝) | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - (It's) too expensive | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 162 - 衤 | yī | cat | clothes (side) | left‑side clothing | 补 被 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 中 (middle) + 贝 (shell) → expensive | 贝 (semantic: value) | 中 (phonetic origin) | phonetic from 中 | ||||||||