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洛陽紙貴

简洛阳纸贵 · 繁洛陽紙貴

Mandarin · pinyin Luò yáng zhǐ guì

lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes

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洛: luò · river in Shanxi province; city
陽: yáng · the active, male principle in Chinese philosophy (yang); light; sun
紙: zhǐ · paper
貴: Look up this written character
阳: yáng · 'male' principle; light; sun
纸: zhǐ · paper
贵: guì · expensive, costly, valuable

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

4–2–3–4 · Luo4 yang2 zhi3 gui4

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 2 Cantonese readings

lok6 joeng4 zi2 gwai3

Cantonese word readings for 洛陽紙貴. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

lok3 joeng4 zi2 gwai3

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

(of a literary work, e.g. a new book) to be all the rage for a time; to be immensely popular