Illustration: At a Japanese specialist fruit shop, a customer receives one carefully wrapped bunch of grapes in a shallow presentation box. On the payment tray, they have laid out a surprisingly thick fan of banknotes for this single small purchase.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

高たか値ね

takane

high price

Example sentences

  1. イチゴは冬ふゆは高値たかねだ。

    Strawberries sell at high prices in winter.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 高値たかねにもかかわらず一日いちにち300食しょくを売うり上あげたという。

    Despite the high price, it is said to have sold 300 servings a day.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 家いえを売うるなら、新あたらしければ新あたらしいほど、綺麗きれいなら綺麗きれいなほど、高値たかねがつきますよ。

    If you’re going to sell a house, then the newer it is and the prettier it is, the higher the price it’ll go for.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 高値

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 値price; costOnチKunね・あたい

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