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物美价廉

wù měi jià lián

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 物美價廉

物美价廉 (wù měi jià lián) means "good quality and cheap; a bargain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 物美价廉 means

1. good quality and cheap
2. a bargain

The characters in 物美价廉

• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…
• 美měibeautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify
• 价jiàprice; value; (chemistry) valence
• 廉liánincorruptible; honest; inexpensive

Example sentences

• 真是物美价廉。
  Zhēnshi wùměijiàlián.
  It's a real bargain.
• 屋子物美价廉。
  The house looked good; moreover, the price was right.
• 那家馆子物美价廉，美中不足的是他们糟糕的位置。
  Nà jiā guǎnzi wù měi jià lián, měi zhōng bù zú de shì tāmen zāogāo de wèizhi.
  That place's food is delicious and their prices are low. However, their location isn't good.

Where 物美价廉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wù–xī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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