洛阳纸贵洛陽紙貴 in English
- 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
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
洛
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
阳
These are the forms of 陽, the traditional character: 阳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
纸
These are the forms of 紙, the traditional character: 纸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Qin bamboo slips 秦 - See all 3 forms
贵
These are the forms of 貴, the traditional character: 贵 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).