洛阳纸贵
luò​yáng​zhǐ​guì

best-seller

  • created sense approved 洛阳纸贵/洛陽紙貴 · luò​yáng​zhǐ​guì · best-seller — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    洛阳纸贵 / 洛陽紙貴

    luò​yáng​zhǐ​guì

    best-seller

    (idiom) literary works become popular and widely circulated; to sell like hotcakes. Literally meaning "paper has become expensive in Luoyang" because everyone is rushing to buy paper to copy a famous story.

    洛阳 (literal) → 洛阳/洛陽 · luò​yáng · Luoyang 纸 (literal) → 纸/紙 · zhǐ · paper 贵 (literal) → 贵/貴 · guì · expensive

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense