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Mythic Mandarin

砍价 (kǎn jià): meaning and stroke order

砍价 (kǎn jià) means to bargain, to cut or beat down a price.

砍价

Simplified
砍价
Traditional
砍價
Pinyin
kǎn jià

Stroke order of 砍价

砍

  • kǎn to chop; to cut down
  • 9 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 砍价

  1. kǎn jià Traditional 砍價
    • to bargain
    • to cut or beat down a price

Radicals of the characters

砍
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 9 strokes · 石 on the left, 欠 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.

砍价 in our stories

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  • 陶然这才开口。她没有砍价，而是问：“如果我们把合同从一年延长到三年，对你们意味着什么？”

    Táo Rán zhè cái kāikǒu tā méiyǒu kǎnjià érshì wèn rúguǒ wǒmen bǎ hétong cóng yì nián yáncháng dào sān nián duì nǐmen yìwèizhe shénme

    Only then did Tao Ran speak. She didn't haggle; instead she asked, "If we extended the contract from one year to three, what would that mean for you?"

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 砍价

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).