{"path":"/entry/29101","title":"奇货可居 / 奇貨可居 (qí huò kě jū) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"奇货可居 / 奇貨可居 (qí huò kě jū): rare commodity worth hoarding. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":29101,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["奇货可居"],"TRADITIONAL":["奇貨可居"]}},"phonetic":"qí huò kě jū","phoneticKey":"qi2 huo4 ke3 ju1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"rare commodity worth hoarding","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"object for profiteering","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"rare goods can be hoarded [to be sold when prices go up]","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Earliest attested in Records of the Grand Historian","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"吕不韦贾邯郸，见而怜之，曰「此奇货可居」。","traditional":"呂不韋賈邯鄲，見而憐之，曰「此奇貨可居」。"},"phonetic":"Lǚ bùwéi gǔ hándān, jiàn ér lián zhī, yuē “cǐ qíhuòkějū”.","english":"Lü Buwei, who was trading in Handan, saw (Qin prince Yiren) and pitied him and said (to himself): \"This is a rare good that can be hoarded.\"","ref":null}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}