价钱(jià qián) - price in Mandarin

价钱 (jià qián) 'price' joins 价 and 钱. 价 (jià) means value or price and carries the person radical 亻 in its simplified form, reduced from the traditional 價. 钱 (qián) means money and carries the metal radical 钅, since coins were cast in metal. Together the compound names the amount of money something costs. The traditional form is 價錢.

Origin

compound

Root

价 (jià, value) + 钱 (qián, money)