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洛阳纸贵
Luò yáng zhǐ guì
What 洛阳纸贵 means
- 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
The characters in 洛阳纸贵
- 洛luòused in transliteration
- 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
- 纸zhǐpaper; classifier for documents, letters etc
- 贵guìexpensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank
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