{"path":"/entry/63585","title":"洛阳纸贵 / 洛陽紙貴 (luò yáng zhǐ guì) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"洛阳纸贵 / 洛陽紙貴 (luò yáng zhǐ guì): literally paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":63585,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["洛阳纸贵"],"TRADITIONAL":["洛陽紙貴"]}},"phonetic":"luò yáng zhǐ guì","phoneticKey":"luo4 yang2 zhi3 gui4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally paper has become expensive in Luoyang ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(because everyone is making a copy of a popular story)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(of a product)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" to sell like hotcakes","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":86473,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to push up the paper price in Luoyang","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the incident that the Western Jin poet Zuo Si's work Rhapsodies on the Three Capitals was extremely popular that people were making copies of it, causing a shortage in paper and pushing up its price in Luoyang.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"于是豪贵之家竞相传写，洛阳为之纸贵。","traditional":"於是豪貴之家競相傳寫，洛陽為之紙貴。"},"phonetic":"Yúshì háoguì zhī jiā jìngxiāng chuánxiě, Luòyáng wèi zhī zhǐ guì.","english":"After that the noblemen were eagerly making copies of the work, causing paper to become expensive in Luoyang.","ref":"648 CE, Fang Xuanling (lead editor), Book of Jin"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}