洛阳纸贵
Luò yáng zhǐ guì
Pinyin

Definition

洛阳纸贵
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Luò yáng zhǐ guì
  1. lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
  2. fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

夏洛克
Xià luò kè
  1. 1 Shylock (in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice)
  2. 2 Sherlock (name)
洛杉矶
Luò shān jī
  1. 1 Los Angeles, California
洛阳
Luò yáng
  1. 1 Luoyang prefecture-level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times
博洛尼亚
Bó luò ní yà
  1. 1 Bologna
卡洛斯
Kǎ luò sī
  1. 1 Carlos (name)
商洛
Shāng luò
  1. 1 Shangluo prefecture level city in Shaanxi
夏洛特
Xià luò tè
  1. 1 Charlotte (name)
巴洛克
bā luò kè
  1. 1 baroque (loanword)
弗洛伊德
Fú luò yī dé
  1. 1 Floyd (name)
  2. 2 Freud (name)
  3. 3 Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the inventor of psychoanalysis
弗洛姆
Fú luò mǔ
  1. 1 Fromm (psychoanalyst)
摩洛哥
Mó luò gē
  1. 1 Morocco
斯洛伐克
Sī luò fá kè
  1. 1 Slovakia (officially, since 1993, the Slovak Republic)
斯洛文尼亚
Sī luò wén ní yà
  1. 1 Slovenia
果洛
Guǒ luò
  1. 1 Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture in south Qinghai
洛
Luò
  1. 1 surname Luo
  2. 2 old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)
洛佩斯
Luò pèi sī
  1. 1 Lopez (name)
洛克人
Luò kè rén
  1. 1 Rockman or Mega Man (video game series)
洛克菲勒
Luò kè fēi lè
  1. 1 Rockefeller
洛可可
luò kě kě
  1. 1 rococo (loanword)
  2. 2 very ornate
洛基
Luò jī
  1. 1 Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology

Idioms (1)

洛阳纸贵
Luò yáng zhǐ guì
  1. 1 lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes

Sample Sentences