平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平价
píngjià
affordable price; fair or controlled pricing; to stabilise prices
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
- 政府通过临时储备投放平价粮油，防止恐慌性抢购推高民生成本。 Zhèngfǔ tōngguò línshí chǔbèi tóufàng píngjià liángyóu, fángzhǐ kǒnghuāngxìng qiǎnggòu tuīgāo mínshēng chéngběn. The government released affordable grain and oil from temporary reserves to prevent panic buying from driving up the cost of living.
- 这家平价超市的东西又新鲜又便宜。 Zhè jiā píngjià chāoshì de dōngxi yòu xīnxiān yòu piányi. The goods in this budget supermarket are both fresh and cheap.
- 他们想开一家平价餐馆，让普通人也能常来吃饭。 Tāmen xiǎng kāi yì jiā píngjià cānguǎn, ràng pǔtōng rén yě néng cháng lái chī fàn. They want to open an affordable restaurant where ordinary people can eat often.