"Expensive" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 昂贵 | áng guì | expensive / costly |   |
| 贵 |  guì | expensive / noble / precious / (honorific) your | |
| 高昂 | gāo áng | to hold (one's head) high / expensive / high (spirits etc) | |
| 值钱 | zhí qián | valuable / costly / expensive | |
| 昂 | áng | to lift / to raise / to raise one's head / high / high spirits / soaring / expensive | |
| 天价 | tiān jià | extremely expensive / sky-high price | |
| 名表 | míng biǎo | famous watch (i.e. expensive brand of wristwatch) | |
| 不划算 | bù huá suàn | it isn't worth it / not cost-effective / not profitable / too expensive | |
| 大红袍 | dà hóng páo | an expensive type of oolong tea | |
| 富贵病 | fù guì bìng | rich person's ailment (needing expensive treatment and long recuperation) | |
| 洛阳纸贵 | Luò yáng zhǐ guì | 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 | |
| 食玉炊桂 | shí yù chuī guì | food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high | |
| 珉玉 | mín yù | good and bad / expensive and cheap | |
| 寸土寸金 | cùn tǔ cùn jīn | land is extremely expensive (in that area) (idiom) | |
| 不当家不知柴米贵 | bù dāng jiā bù zhī chái mǐ guì | a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom) | |
| 买下 | mǎi xià | to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house) / to acquire (a company, a copyright etc) | |
