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Mythic Mandarin

代价 (dài jià): meaning and stroke order

代价 (dài jià) means price, cost, consideration (in share dealing).

代价

Simplified
代价
Traditional
代價
Pinyin
dài jià

Stroke order of 代价

代

  • dài to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

价

  • jiè (literary) messenger; servant
  • jià price; value
  • jie particle used between an adverb and a verb or adjective; (dialect) particle used after a negative adverb such as 不[bu4] or 別|别[bie2] without any other following element
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 價

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 代价

  1. dài jià Traditional 代價
    • price
    • cost
    • consideration (in share dealing)

Radicals of the characters

代
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 弋 on the right
价
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 亻 on the left, 介 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

代价 in our stories

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  • 古人用这个故事解释他们看到的世界，也用它提醒后人：一时的愤怒，可能要让所有的人付出代价。

    gǔrén yòng zhè gè gùshi jiěshì tāmen kàndào de shìjiè yě yòng tā tíxǐng hòurén yìshí de fènnù kěnéng yào ràng suǒyǒu de rén fùchū dàijià

    People of old used this story to explain the world they saw, and to warn later generations that one moment's anger can make everyone pay the price.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 他又指着瀑布说：“你注意过那个传说吗？鱼要变成龙，先得被火烧掉尾巴。纵然跳过去了，也得付出代价，不再是原来的自己。”

    tā yòu zhǐzhe pùbù shuō nǐ zhùyì guò nàge chuánshuō ma yú yào biànchéng lóng xiān děi bèi huǒ shāo diào wěiba zòngrán tiào guòqu le yě děi fùchū dàijià bú zài shì yuánlái de zìjǐ

    He pointed at the falls. "Have you ever thought about that legend? For a fish to become a dragon, fire must first burn off its tail. Even if it leaps across, it still pays a price: it is no longer what it was."

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 代价

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).