洛阳纸贵 — Chinese idiom
洛阳纸贵
Luò yáng zhǐ guì
Traditional: 洛陽紙貴
Meaning
- lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story)
- fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes
Character by character
- 洛Luòa river in the Shanxi province; a city
- 阳yángthe male principle; bright, sunny; clear, lit, ope
- 纸zhǐpaper
- 贵guìexpensive, costly; valuable, precious
Idioms sharing a character
- 夕阳西下 xī yáng xī xià
- 阴差阳错 yīn chā yáng cuò
- 阳光明媚 yáng guāng míng mèi
- 阳光普照 yáng guāng pǔ zhào
- 阳奉阴违 yáng fèng yīn wéi
- 一纸空文 yī zhǐ kōng wén
- 敬惜字纸 jìng xī zì zhǐ
- 纸上谈兵 zhǐ shàng tán bīng
- 纸短情长 zhǐ duǎn qíng cháng
- 纸醉金迷 zhǐ zuì jīn mí
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