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The character "值" in its traditional form consists of the semantic component 亻, representing a person, combined with the phonetic and semantic component 直, meaning straight or upright. Its earliest meanings centered on the idea of encountering or facing something directly, which extended to the concept of a person taking their turn or being positioned straight on duty, hence its use to mean "to be on duty" or "to happen to". From this sense of a person standing in correct alignment for a specific role or task, the character developed its dominant modern abstract meaning of "value" or "worth", conveying the idea of something being equivalent to or measuring up correctly to a standard, as in numerical value or merit.
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这本书很值得读。
他今天在公司值班。
这个东西价值很高。
我认为这不值得生气。
他的建议非常有价值。
我们要善于发现生活中的小确幸，这很值得。
这些股票在过去一年里大幅增值。
这是一个值得深入思考的问题。