This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

Costing little 戔 money 貝; 戔 also provides the pronunciation

  • 賤 cheap, low, mean, worthless jiàn
    • 貝 sea shell; money, currency bèi
      • 目 eye; to look, to see; division, topic mù
      • 八 eight; all around, all sides bā
    • 戔 small, narrow; tiny, little jiān
      • 戈 spear, lance, halberd gē
        • 弋 to catch, to arrest; to shoot with a bow yì
        • 丿 slash piě
賤 jiàn cheap, low, mean, worthless 濺

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