廉価

• 読み: れんか
• ローマ字: renka
• 漢字の分解: 廉 (ren) — modest, inexpensive | 価 (ka) — price, value
• 発音: /ɾeɴ.ka/

意味

Low-priced; inexpensive; cheap. Describes goods or services offered at a reduced or modest price.

A na-adjective and noun used in formal or commercial writing to describe low pricing without the negative nuance that 安っぽい (cheap-looking) carries. 廉価 can be neutral or positive — it highlights affordability rather than implying low quality. Appears in product catalogues, marketing copy, and business reports. The compound 廉価版 (budget edition / lite version) is common in software and publishing contexts.

例文

1. 廉価な商品が溢れる市場では、品質の差別化が企業の生命線となる。
2. そのブランドは廉価でありながら機能性を追求した設計で、若い消費者の支持を集めた。
3. 廉価版のソフトウェアでも、業務に必要な機能は十分に揃っている。

使い方ガイド

場面: business writing, marketing, product descriptions, economics

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 廉 (ren — honest, inexpensive, clean) and 価 (ka — price, value). 廉 originally meant moral integrity and incorruptibility; its sense of 'modest' extended to modest pricing. The compound entered Japanese from Chinese commercial vocabulary.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Business