"Expensive" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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昂贵 áng guì expensive / costly
贵 guì expensive / (bound form) highly valued / precious / (bound form) noble / of high rank / (prefix) (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)
冬虫夏草 dōng chóng - xià cǎo caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) (The fungus grows within the body of a caterpillar, culminating in the emergence of a stalked fruiting body from the caterpillar's head, and is a much-prized and expensive ingredient used as a tonic in traditional Chinese medicine.)
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