居民消费价格指数

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 肖(resembling; diminishing)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Water gradually drips away and disappears, that is the meaning of the character tiêu.

• 弗(not; no)PHONETIC
• 貝(shell; currency)RADICAL

Expense is money that you can never keep in your hand no matter how hard you try.

• 亻(person; human)RADICAL
• 介(middle; center; intermediate)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Price is determined by a middleman standing between two trading parties to mediate the deal.

• 木(tree; wood)RADICAL
• 各(each; every)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Each piece of wood has its own frame and standard.

• 扌(hand; arm)RADICAL
• 旨(meaning; delicious)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Use your hand to point at what you want to say.

• 娄(many times; piled up)PHONO-SEMANTIC
• 攵(tap; hand motion)RADICAL

Counting numbers is using your hand to tap repeatedly many times in order to calculate.