CHEAP    便宜

PRICE MORE SMALL THAN IMAGINED.
INEXPENSIVELOW-PRICEDLOW-COSTECONOMICALCOMPETITIVEAFFORDABLEREASONABLEREASONABLY PRICEDBUDGETECONOMYBARGAINDOWNMARKETCUT-RATEREDUCEDDISCOUNTEDDISCOUNTROCK-BOTTOMGIVEAWAYBARGAIN-BASEMENTLOW-ENDDIRT CHEAP
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The dominant word is jiàn 賤 (ant. guì 貴 "expensive"), which describes something as low in quality and therefore also in price. 2. Qīng 輕 (ant. zhòng 重 "expensive") is an economic technical term for something being low in price.
Modern Chinese Criteria
便宜 賤 廉 低廉 廉價 賤貿 公道 can refer to a reasonable or fair price. 惠而不費 所費小小 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • GRATIS　INTENSELY CHEAP so as NOT REQUIRING MONEY to be GIVEN or RECEIVED. (anc: 8/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • EXPENSIVEPRICE MORE BIG IN-RELATION-TO the PRICE IMAGINED.
See also
  • VULGARORDINARY AND NOT ELEGANT BECAUSE COMMON to EXCESSIVELY MANY.
  • FRUGALMODERATE in USING MONEY AND PROPERTY.
Hypernym
  • PRICE　MONEY one MUST GIVE to BUY something. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • MONEY　STANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.89

    • Words (4 items)

    賤  jiàn OC: dzens MC: dziɛn 5 Attributions

    The dominant word is jiàn 賤 (ant. guì 貴 "expensive"), which describes something as low in quality and therefore also in price.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 貴/EXPENSIVE The dominant standard word for the high price of anything is guì 貴 (ant. jiàn 賤 "inexpensive").

      Syntactic words
    • nabconceptcheapness, low price levels
    • vadNcheap in price
    • vadVat a low price
    • vibe cheap in price
    • vpostadVcheaply 買賤
    儉  jiǎn OC: ɡromʔ MC: giɛm 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vichangebecome cheaper
    輕  qìng OC: kheŋs MC: khiɛŋ
    輕  qīng OC: kheŋ MC: khiɛŋ 0 Attributions

    Qīng 輕 (ant. zhòng 重"expensive") is an economic technical term for something being low in price.

      Syntactic words
    • vicheap
    廉  lián OC: ɡ-rem MC: liɛm 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viSONG: economical to buy, of the kind of a decent bargain