价

價
jie
#409 most
frequent character
great, good, middleman, servant

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

价 links 亻 person with 介 jiè, whose sound marks the word. People are involved in trade, so the first sense was price of goods. It then shortened to price and value.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

价jià
price, value

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