定 dìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 疋 roll, bolt of cloth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
定价
dìngjià
to set a price; price
Characters in this word
价 jià
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 介 agent, go-between, intermediary
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 商品的定价如果脱离消费者的承受范围，哪怕品质再好也很难畅销。 Shāngpǐn de dìngjià rúguǒ tuōlí xiāofèizhě de chéngshòu fànwéi, nǎpà pǐnzhì zài hǎo yě hěn nán chàngxiāo. If the pricing of a product is beyond what consumers can afford, it will be hard to sell well no matter how good its quality is.
- 这本书的定价不高，学生也买得起。 Zhè běn shū de dìngjià bù gāo, xuésheng yě mǎi de qǐ. This book's list price is not high; students can afford it too.
- 老板正在给新产品定价，还没有决定。 Lǎobǎn zhèngzài gěi xīn chǎnpǐn dìngjià, hái méiyǒu juédìng. The boss is setting a price for the new product and hasn't decided yet.
Related words
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily
- 一定 yídìng definitely; certainly
- 定期 dìngqī regular; at regular times
- 否定 fǒudìng to negate; to reject
- 规定 guīdìng rule
- 决定 juédìng to decide; decision
- 确定 quèdìng to be sure; to decide
- 制定 zhìdìng to make; to draw up
- 定 dìng to decide; to book
- 固定 gùdìng to fix in place; fixed
- 说不定 shuōbudìng maybe
- 稳定 wěndìng stable